Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

In the current market conditions, which are totally different to the ones applying when the PPPs were first conceived, I ask the Minister to reconsider this and to think again. I cannot see why we do not publish what was the price for this contract in better times in 2007, and subsequently in 2008 with a falling market. If that is publicised, surely we are likely to get better value. One would not run a cattle fair the way the Minister is running this kind of school programme. Farmers going to market know what the price of cattle was last week and the week before. Why can we not know the same kind of information in this context? That is what the market economy is supposed to be about.

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