Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The changes being made in respect of the shareholdings in our State companies are being made in the national interest in order to revive our economy and create jobs. Deputy Ó Cuív is probably more familiar than I with the EU-IMF memorandum of understanding, which was concluded with his Government last December. It is well known that the understanding that his Government had with the troika was for the sale of State assets in the order of €5 billion.

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