Eoghan Harris (Independent)

The Halifax workers cannot walk out of their offices today back into State employment in the ESB, as a certain celebrity candidate could walk out of the free market situation — after all politicians are subject to the free market — and back into a safe, secure and pensionable job in RTE. No Halifax worker can do that, unless they can walk back into the ESB.

I speak as someone who is an appointed Senator. I worked in RTE and I was appointed to the Seanad so I did not have to submit myself to election, nor would I.