Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The Senator is quite right, the award made to the Honourable Desmond Guinness is to be commended.

While I do not want to be seen to correct my colleague in combat, Senator Bannon, the competitiveness of industry has not decreased; it has increased. A particular report has recently been published. I accept what he said about Iarnród Éireann and the unreliability of a certain train. I am not sure whether the Senator was on the train or was told about it. Those on the train coming from Sligo needed to change at Maynooth. In a modern age with benchmarking and wonderful arrangements between everybody, it is difficult to weed out every glitch in the system.