The government has to be quite careful and not use the civil servants for any type of political service,

The issue is being seen as a testing case for the government's ability ... That is the way the government sees this and the bill needs to be passed by whatever means.

The government was not happy with the level of competition existing in the fixed line market and some rationalization had to be done.

The surface of the dispute is about pay reduction, but I think that beneath this issue there is more deep-seated distrust of the government because the unions are saying that if the government can legislate on a pay cut, the government can legislate on anything,

The Secret Service has worked in conjunction with not only government agencies but with industry partners in coming up with preventive measures for this type of equipment to make it more difficult to use illegally to produce counterfeit currency.

The cross-border train service has not been abandoned altogether but there are still deliberations at government-to-government level. We expect to launch the service soon.