Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

I do not accept the Minister's response. What is blacked out, and the piece I want, is the reply the Minister got on the sale of those two sites. I accept legal issues cannot be given to me. The piece that is blacked out under the heading "Review of the two property transactions" is what I want to know. What was written for the Minister? What was his report? What does he know that he is not telling us?

The Minister is also aware that a boat was hired for two years by the company. It was decided that an executive of the company would make the decision on the successful tender. The file is missing and the successful tenderer was the official of the company who made the decision to give it to himself. Is it not time for this to go a stage further and for the Minister, as the only shareholder in Shannon Foynes Port Company, to insist that all these files and all the information, which he has and some of which I have obtained recently, should go to the fraud squad? Is not time to call in the Criminal Assets Bureau? Some 16.6 acres of the most valuable land in Foynes harbour is gone and somebody made a killing on it. It is not good enough that the Minister can pass it off. He should be proactive in insisting that the Criminal Assets Bureau gets involved.

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