Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

Once people are given shares, one cannot tell them what they can do with them. The Deputy referred to Eircom where the ESOP has made a substantial amount of money. Despite what I hear at various times about workers' interests during takeovers, when the workers had the shares, they did not seem to mind how they were bought and sold, or to whom they were sold, as long as they made a profit.

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