John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Watt has been around the financial world long enough and he knows equity funds do not really take public policy into consideration. We have given them the job of finding these commercial investments, and nobody has taken into account the fact we may be looking not only at a two-tier economy but a two-tier recovery, which is what I want to avoid. This legislation should try to avoid that as well. Some may argue that if we go down the line, it makes some sense, but would we block some decent investments if some of the money was earmarked for the areas suffering worst from the recession? At the very least we need to start talking about that.