Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

The Government's proposal to sell off State assets and natural resources is the ultimate betrayal of the country and its citizens' economic future and heritage to protect the interests of bankers and speculators. It amounts to robbing the country and its citizens of the national resources and means through which we could have an opportunity to work our way towards economic recovery and resolving the unemployment crisis. It is laughable in the extreme that the Government has made a distinction between, for example, power generation as non-strategic and distribution and transmission as strategic.

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