Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

No decision on the specifics has yet been taken by the Government which announced last September that it had decided to sell a minority shareholding in an integrated ESB. We have undertaken a proper analysis of that decosopm in regulatory and value for money terms. We have established a cross-departmental group, chaired jointly by the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, which has presented its report to us. As I indicated in response to Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, all of this will inform the Government's decision-making process.

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