Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In response to Deputy Boyd Barrett on amendment No. 44, I covered that issue. I reiterate that the LDA is a public body. It is State body. We own it but it is being portrayed by some as if we are selling our land bank off to the Trump organisation. This is about us managing our own land productively, as Deputy Higgins so rightly said. We need to get on with doing this and people know that. They also know very clearly how this agency is being constructed. One only has to look to the ESB or to CIÉ to understand the format we are following in terms of using our own land properly and productively for the good of our people.

I will address amendments Nos. 85 and 227. The former was tabled by Deputies Ó Broin and Gould. Does Deputy Ó Broin wish to speak on it first?