Seanad debates
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Order of Business
11:00 am
Dan Boyle (Green Party)
It has to be a consultative process and it has to take a form in which the social partners feel they are involved but decisions are made as they have to be made. The present difficulty with social partnership is based on the fact that decisions have been made by the Government that were unpopular and, for many elements of society, unacceptable but they were the right decisions that needed to be made.
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