Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If the management puts figures of that sort into the public arena, I have to accept them and take them seriously. However, I will not announce profit or loss figures for a semi-State company before they are published. That would be absurd. The figures will be published in due course in the annual report. For me to pre-empt that would be absurd. Despite the fact the Opposition wants to make me so, I am not the operating entity. I am the shareholder.

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