Last night, Deputy Sweetman raised as a matter of privilege the following statement by Mr. T.P. Hogan, Chairman of Córas Iompair Éireann:
There are about 2,900,000 people in Ireland. Of these 22,000 work for CIE. Subtract that from the total, and you get the number of people in Ireland who think they can run CIE, including characters in the Dáil, who can't even run themselves.