Shane Ross (Independent)

He means ten more years of tying people up to a lack of democracy. We see from the Minister of State's speech that within that, somehow, there will be some confusing types of wage deals from time to time. The Taoiseach, for some reason, wants to tie people up to ten more years in this straitjacket. What will happen is that more and more employers, unions and workers will secede from it because it is not what it appears to be. This does not represent the new Ireland. It is the old-style Ireland, represented by Senator O'Toole and his old Tories in the unions and by IBEC which has nobody on its staff who ever turned a penny in the enterprise economy.