Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I have three questions to which a simple "yes" or "no" reply will do for one or two of them. Did the social partners discuss the Government's proposals for the sale of State assets at recent meetings? Have they been discussed at the new resumed meetings? I refer to property owned by CIE and the Great Southern Hotel Group. For example, there are implications for public policy where CIE in Galway has been instructed to hire consultants to examine the disposal value of a 15-acre site owned by the company, despite the Government's commitment to the North-South rail line, commuter rail lines, intercity rail lines and so forth. Combined with the sell-off of the Great Southern Hotels——

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