Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

The first point is that €4.9 billion is all that remains after the Deputy's party wrecked the economy. As I noted earlier, €10 billion of the money in the fund had to go to bailing out the banks. The troika has told the Government that it will examine fully any proposals the latter may have for the disposal of State assets for the creation of employment, such as the NewERA projects. I hope this response is crystal clear to the Deputy.

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