Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In response to Deputy Durkan, if any public private partnerships are produced to the NTA, I would certainly encourage it to look at them. There must be such possibilities around the country. A large number of people have looked at them and suggested that they were not commercially viable, but if anything commercially viable is proposed and it is socially acceptable, it should, of course, be considered because we have a critical situation.

Deputy Wallace got the longest 30 seconds that anybody has got away with in this House for a long time.

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