Joe O'Toole (Independent)

When Aer Lingus is privatised, it will do a Michael O'Leary on it from here on in. We should not be upset by that because that is the way it will go.

I assure Senator Brian Hayes, who spoke about the price of houses, that if somebody manages to reduce the price of houses there will be an outcry from the main political parties. If somebody manages to get extra money for decent public servants who could do with it to help them to buy houses, as Senator Hayes has suggested, we all know the money will end up in the hands of the same developers and builders who are getting all the money at present. I have made those points, but I do not want to go further with them. It would be useful if those who support the market in one instance recognise their support will have outcomes and consequences at a later stage. It is difficult to listen to people who enthusiastically and energetically supported certain decisions in the first instance now complaining about the negative fall-out from those decisions.