Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Yes, but the Government is looking at assets that will generate revenue further down the road and getting their value now for the taxpayer to invest. I appeal to the Minister when he is looking at assets to look at the State's financial assets. We own 99% of AIB. The chief executive of the bank was before the Oireachtas committee recently and he said they want to dispose of some of it to gradually come back into private ownership. It should not be a State asset but it had to be nationalised. We will not go into that debate now.

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