Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I have a question for the Tánaiste as Government representative and also as leader of the Labour Party. What type of society will be left when we have sold off not just our natural resources, as the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, has already expedited, but also our key assets? What will happen when we have no public postal service, when we have sold off a whole range of necessary public energy bodies, when we have no forestry body? What are the social consequences of such a strategy? I ask the Tánaiste again to reconsider this decision and to stand firmly on the need to use the dividends from these profitable State assets to grow jobs as opposed to selling them off like a clapped-out car.

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