Feargal Quinn (Independent)

They allowed a military dictatorship to happen. They elected Peròn. They might have done other things also. Those of us fortunate to have responsibility in these Houses do not understand we have made ourselves so uncompetitive. I went to Dundalk a few months ago when a store was closing down and asked the people whether they would have to go to Newry to find work and they said no, because they would earn only one third of what they would earn in Dundalk. I was asked on Radio Ulster last night whether it was true that pay in the South was a multiple of that in the North. It is our responsibility to solve the problems in this economy. Let us not act like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned.