Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

There are people who would question whether one can measure the private and public sectors against each other. Can one measure the work of a garda against that of anyone else? Can one measure the work of a teacher? Some people have an ideological and conceptual difficulty with that. Nevertheless, everyone is happy because the people we put on the body were above reproach. There were judges from the courts. The people who sat on it were qualified and independent of the Government and there was no interference from any side. They got information from the unions and the management and they went outside the public sector to get information from private sector employers.