Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. The only person who is interested in class warfare in this House is probably him and maybe some of the colleagues around him, and he is interested in it because he hopes to benefit from it politically and electorally, and that is his choice. What we are interested in on this side of the House is saving businesses and saving jobs and that includes Aer Lingus. That is why we have done what we have done. The subsidy the Deputy referred to, the employment wage subsidy scheme, is helping to keep people in their jobs. There are people in the Deputy’s constituency in Cork who would have been laid off for the last couple of weeks were it not for the Government's wage subsidy scheme ensuring they could be kept on the payroll. That is why we are providing funding to airports like Shannon, Cork and Dublin to help them get through this period. That is why we brought in things like the digital Covid certificate to enable people to travel again. We are absolutely committed to getting aviation going again. It can be done but it needs people working together; it does not need warfare.

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