Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

It would risk everything in the State. Fine Gael wants to get rid of all our successful State companies in one fell swoop and replace them with an unbelievable construct - the quango to end all quangos - in the Department of the Taoiseach. Fine Gael suggests that this body would run the construction, electricity, gas, forestry and water sectors. The proposal simply will not work. The figures behind it are false and phoney. The more we debate it, the more confidence people have that the Government's proposals are working and will work.

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