Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

That is commonplace but, unfortunately the issues are serious. That is best illustrated by this new NERA company, the Fine Gael "super quango", as I call it. The party wanted to abolish quangos, some of which do good work, and establish a super quango instead. It wants to privatise some of our most important State assets, and I assume the Labour Party will not support that. Privatisation puts much fear into workers and consumers when one sees what has happened with some of the privatisation.

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