Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The Minister will be in the House this evening and I hope Senator Terry will put forward her points of view and refer to her diminished admiration. If she does so, it will make for a good debate.

Senator John Phelan raised the matter of the Redundancy Payments Bill. I was fortunate enough to hear the debate in the Dáil last week when the Tánaiste was challenged about commitments that she allegedly made in regard to making redundancy payments retrospective. She provided a most spirited response and firmly declared that she had not made any such commitments.