Mary Ann O'Brien (Independent)

Grey areas and a lack of clarity have appeared this morning. I second Senator White's proposal to pause this for a little longer in order that the Minister of State would have the time to consider the position. He made an extremely good suggestion for me to go back to my three real company stories, and with all due respect, I make the same suggestion to the Minister of State. He should go to some of the brilliant people in Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, who I know very well, and ask them to carry out some focus group tasks in order that he does not have to listen to just one mad, passionate Senator. I am only a novice in here but it might be a good idea to slow this process a bit. As we have said, there is nothing more important than getting this right, as we are broke, in order that we are able to create jobs. Sometimes in my company the engineers might fold their arms and tell me something cannot be done. I call these people job prevention officers, JPOs, as a joke, and Senators or Deputies do not want to become job prevention officers.