Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

It is a pity the Government has not allocated a decent amount of time for the debate as one cannot discuss what is a complex issue in five minutes. The reality is that nobody in the House is against the sale of State assets because, if one takes it to an absolute ridiculous level, it would be equivalent to saying that if a State company owned a van it wished to trade in for a new van, it could not sell the old one. We know that trading of State assets takes place all the time. However, what we are talking about here is a firesale of State assets.

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