Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

-----is recommending the selling of ports and harbours. Are those non-strategic assets? I ask this question because a mantra has been repeated by Fine Gael representatives in the debate on how to deal with unemployment that the State does not create jobs. What then are Bord na Móna, ESB, the health service or the ports and harbours? They create useful employment. The State can and should create jobs. Perhaps the Minister of State can give us an idea of what a non-essential or non-strategic State asset is because I am worried any of these things could be considered non-strategic.

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