Michael Finucane (Fine Gael)

I want to raise an issue I thought we had left behind, namely, the industrial relations problems of the past. Iarnród Éireann has been marketing itself positively and trying to streamline its operations to facilitate its customers, yet I was delayed for two hours on the early morning train yesterday due to the maverick action of a worker in Mallow Station. The knock-on effect was that the train was packed with people standing and schoolchildren on a school tour from Kilflynn in Tralee were delayed for two hours on their journey to Dublin.

I raise this issue because the unions have a responsibility. If there is industrial relations machinery——