This is a relatively simple question, I hope. Would the Minister accept, bearing in mind the contributions that are necessary towards that fund, that the existing strike of one of our leading insurance companies can——

Well, Deputy Tunney, now——

If the Chair will bear with me, he will see that the question that I am putting is not unreasonable.

The preamble is unreasonable.

Would the Minister accept that I am in order in saying that because of the disruption of that fund it might be in order for him to exhort everybody concerned to bring that strike to an end? That is a reasonable question. It is going to affect the fund.

It is a supplementary question that is put down for an ulterior motive. I am sorry, I am calling on Deputy Treacy.

Is the Minister not concerned about the fund? He should be concerned about looking into the disruptive effect of this strike and should be prepared to comment on it.

I am sorry, Deputy, I am disallowing the question.

I do not think that the Chair should have been so hasty in disallowing that question, because the Minister is responsible——

The Chair has ruled. The Chair does not profess to be infallible, but he is in charge and has ruled in good faith, and that is that. I am calling on Deputy Treacy.

The Chair was expecting that I was asking the Minister to act as Minister for Labour, which I was not. I was asking him to express understandable concern for that fund. It was a fair enough question.

I am calling Deputy Noel Treacy.