Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, renegotiated that deal with the European Commission. Incidentally, under the previous terms, all €5 billion of the proceeds of the asset sale were to be used entirely for writing down debt and none of it was to be used for reinvestment in the Irish economy.

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