Joe O'Toole (Independent)

This is a serious issue, particularly with the recent demand from the CIF that construction workers should take a 30% drop in salary and agree to a pay-freeze for the foreseeable future.

We should give this serious consideration because the workers in the construction industry, ungrateful wretches that they are, have shown little consideration for the hardship reduced profits have forced upon the builders of Ireland. If construction workers were to show any sense of fair play, they would agree to work for nothing for the next several years to keep the builders of Ireland in the comfort to which they are used.

I believe we should go further and that churches, mosques, temples and other places of worship might consider——