Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will commence the legislation as soon as I can but I do not want to pre-empt the legislative process. I hope to bring it to Government very shortly and I will publish it immediately thereafter but there is a growing queue to get into the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform now and it will be very busy for the next while.

There are clear, published protocols about the handling of the sale of State assets. I have made it clear that in respect of any information from a bidder or potential bidder my immediate staff has had no contact at all with such persons. There is a portal, an access point, through NewEra and a designated officer to handle that and the protocols surrounding that are published.

What was the Deputy's last point? I have written "lobbying".

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