Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)

Ba mhaith liom tagairt a dhéanamh don cinneadh atá á dhéanamh maidir le díol acmhainní Stáit. "Privatisation is the road back to autocracy, in which a hollowed-out state is bereft of anything meaningful to attract the support of the citizen - especially the marginalised, excluded from the mainstream of society." So said Frederick Powell, a political scientist whose same lines were quoted last Tuesday at the London School of Economics by Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D. Higgins, in a fine speech.