Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I will move on. While I deprecate any disruption in public services, what are antediluvian are some of the attitudes to social partnership and industrial relations, which seem to date from pre-1913, expressed in this House and regularly espoused in the columns of a Sunday newspaper. Any attempt to introduce a neo-liberal system of Thatcherite industrial relations in this country will not succeed.