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

That company understands the value of our forests because it knows how to manage them properly. Why does the Government not keep them in public ownership, to generate the jobs that could put our people back to work, instead of selling them off to asset strippers who want only to cash in and have no intention of creating jobs or revenue for the State?

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