Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

They will have no job at the end of it. That is the same thing to me.

I am shocked that the Labour Party has been snookered into this. The Minister, who is a shareholder, is selling these assets. Another Labour Party Minister, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, will be the front line Minister for the sale of some of these assets and we have a Minister of State from the Labour Party, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, here to take the flack on their behalf. One only needs to ask anybody, not to mind one's supporters, whether he or she sees any sense in what is being done and the answer will be "No".

I was here for an hour and a half of Question Time with the Minister on Tuesday and we had positive and good exchanges. He said that what I had to say made sense and we agreed on a lot of things. However, I do not agree with one syllable of what is proposed in this regard. The people of Ireland do not agree with it either. I will give the alternative.

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