Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)

We are talking about a different league here, about people who create jobs not those who try to take them away. We are saying that we support the insurance company. We want to have a strong player in the field for competition. We have no wish for the old cartel that was here years ago, ripping off the Irish consumer in respect of insurance policies. Senator Ross will remember this time as I do. He may be a good deal younger than me but he is very much to the fore in knowing how cartels operate because it is his job, and he is doing a very good job in the national interest in his other field of expertise.

However, let us give credit where credit is due. As Senator Wilson has stated, we salute the man that pays his taxes in his own country, like Michael O'Leary and Seán Quinn. All the other people who are making fortunes and not paying their taxes in the Irish jurisdiction are in a different league of Irish people in the view of those on this side of the House.