Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have to disagree with the Deputy. He is advocating that this decision should have been politicised. He is suggesting that this decision should have been taken around the Cabinet table, with people muscling one another as to whether this should have been in favour of one part of the community or another.

That vision of how decisions should be made is not one to which I subscribe. The decision must be based on a fair assessment of the long-term interests of the company, its customers and workers and-----

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