David Norris (Independent)

And then I will ignore you.

I compliment Senator Quinn on his extraordinary courage and honesty. He has gone right to the heart of the matter. It is good to hear that from the heart of the commercial world. What we are dealing with is a historical discrepancy between what was paid to producers at ground level and the enormous profits made by large corporations. We have only to consider the phrase "banana republic" to see this. Bananas are one of the original products for which this was the case. The Americans, for example, colonised parts of Central America commercially and turned people to slave labour in the interests of large banana companies.

I remember some years ago there was a significant row about the production of chocolate, which is a very ordinary thing. Within the past ten years——