Mary White (Fianna Fail)

They are asking for personal guarantees. They are leading people up the garden path and when they get to a certain point, they want personal guarantees. The Minister will have to deal with that.

The previous Government, which included my own party, failed to deal with Waterford. I pleaded with it to grant technological status to Waterford Institute of Technology. It is no big deal. We will give it the title and build it up over time. Galway city never had a recession, either in the 1980s or now, because of the university there. Dr. Ed Walsh built up the University of Limerick and there are tremendous opportunities for people there. Waterford is in dire need of a technological university. I am pleading for it. I must criticise my own party also for its failure to save Waterford Crystal. It was pathetic that it failed on both those issues.