Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
5:25 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will not talk over the Minister if he does not talk down the clock. He said: "I secured an agreement that in return for increasing the level of ambition of our asset disposal programme to a €3 billion target the troika agreed that we could retain half of the proceeds to fund additional employment enhancing projects", which is a jobs stimulus in other words. They are the Minister's words, not mine. The quid pro quo for permission to invest in jobs stimulus is the hitting of the €3 million target. By any logic, given that Coillte and Aer Lingus are off the table-----
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