Derek McDowell (Labour)

I welcome the Minister of State's response. What he proposes will add significantly to the protection of the workers in question. Without wishing to be churlish, will he explain what his colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Fahey, meant when he said on radio that any efforts to extend undue protection to temporary workers in the directive currently under negotiation would be bad, distort the labour market and bring to an end the Celtic tiger, if it was not already dead?