Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

If the project, as arranged with the preferred bidder under the PPP, has collapsed, why can the Minister not make public the financing arrangements that were being sought, so that we can make an assessment regarding value for money?

The Minister believes one should only compare parties on the basis of what they did when in government. When the Labour Party was in government we handed over to his party a solvent country creating 55,000 jobs a year with the public finances in surplus. His Government will leave to us a bankrupt country that is going down the tubes and cannot provide money for necessary prison spaces or anything else. Is that not the degree of economic mismanagement by Fianna Fáil in the past seven or eight years?

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