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

Will the Taoiseach clarify his response to Deputy Micheál Martin? It is still not clear to me where the buck stops on the State assets we will have to sell at the behest of the European Union and the IMF as part of their package. Who will make the final decision? Deputy Brendan Howlin and other Ministers may have an input, make recommendations and examine the McCarthy report. Surely, given something as serious and disastrous as a demand to sell State assets to pay off banker debts, the bottom line should be with the Taoiseach. Is it not also necessary for the Taoiseach to define somewhat more clearly than he has in his response, strategic as opposed to non-strategic assets? A couple of "strategic" examples are given but the Taoiseach referred to the McCarthy report, and the definition of "non-strategic" in it is preposterous.

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