Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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At the end of 2018, bank debt stood at €41.7 billion and the State received €300 million in dividend payments in 2019. It seems that the taxpayers have taken a substantial hit, if all the State received was €300 million from the three banks from which it should receive dividends, when the annual cost of servicing the debt, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General, is somewhere between €1.1 and €1.3 billion, and the overall debt is approximately €40 billion now. Does the Government or the Department have any plans to sell the shares that the State has in the banks?