Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. First, I wish to correct Deputy Matthews on one particular matter which may have slipped his mind. He referred to the agreement made by the Government with the troika in November 2010. I remind him there was no agreement to sell State assets in that agreement and there was certainly nothing relating to a sum of €5 billion; that was agreed by the current Government. There was a commitment to review State assets in so far as they might contribute to debt reduction but there was no commitment on it. Unfortunately that gets peddled around a good deal.

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