Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

One must have regard to the points that were made by those such as Senator Quinn and Senator O'Brien in terms of their experience as business people and given Senator Quinn's long-standing membership of this House as a legislator. One has to have due regard and respect for that and for everything he says.

If we strip out all of the rhetoric, the verbose language and the accusations, which I appreciate given such language occurs in the normal course of political dialogue, the key point is that this is about the implementation of a directive.