Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is very important that I get this message across, specifically as the parties are now speaking. I welcome that dialogue. I will talk to the unions and management, and I will join them in a forum once the dispute is settled. I will not get involved, under any circumstances, in an industrial relations dispute of this sort. That is the position we have taken from the beginning, and those who come back time and time again and say that we are going to have to intervene must get the message. It is not going to happen, and no false hope should go out to people that the State has some sort of funding or resources available in this dispute. This is a dispute which involves Expressway. This cannot be settled-----