Brendan Ryan (Labour)

We agree to the Order of Business. However, when we agreed to it, we were under the clear impression – it was not the Leader's fault – that the Redundancy Payments Bill would be retrospective and apply to a few cases of recent redundancies. I want to make it clear that the Leader did not behave in any way other than impeccably. We would not have agreed to the Bill being taken with such urgency if we had been as clear as we are now about the breach of promise by the Tánaiste and the clear and deliberate deception she entered into with the workers in Castlecomer in which she told them one thing but has now done the exact opposite. That is not the way to do business.