Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The decision on an alternative use of the plants at Mallow and Carlow is one for the company. It would be very foolish of me to commit the Government to purchase such a facility for the manufacture of a product on which significant research and preparatory work needs to be done. There has been much superficial talk about how wonderful an ethanol factory would be——

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