Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What folly this is. The Minister of State is nodding his head. We spend €50 million every year in promoting St. Patrick's Day events, but we will lose a company that has €500 million in cash in banks. We would sell it for €1.6 billion. In Galway it is sometimes asked, "Who is codding who?" The Government is not codding us.

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