Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

It was a pathetic attempt by a party leader to pretend that the past had not happened. He pretended that the former Government, of which he was a member for many years, did not commission the McCarthy report on the possible sale of State assets. He attempted to rewrite the fact that Fianna Fáil in government sold Telecom Éireann, TSB and three quarters of Aer Lingus, raided the Central Bank and the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF,-----