Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----not wish to embrace this particular issue, of all the people in the room at the moment he is the only one with a chance to do it because he is above the Whip. He is a Minister and he can sit down with his ministerial colleagues and say there are other ways. If he fails in doing that in consultation with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, that is his problem and his failure. It is not a failure of this House to highlight the fact that there were choices and the Minister of State has just chosen not to take them.