Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I come back to the key question that has been put to me about the State handling stolen goods, which is the way this was phrased. When one looks at this issue, one can see some parallels. A company provides €750,000 worth of equipment and the State says this was supposed to be paid for by a liquidated company and the matter is one for the supplier company and the liquidated company to resolve. However, the State will benefit from the fact that the desks and other materials worth €750,000 are in the schools. Are we not complicit in a system that is handling stolen goods, which have not been paid for, whether it is desks or chairs, football pitches, floor covering, paint or the bricks and mortar that built the walls of the schools?