Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is an awful mess. Everything is left hanging on that bidder, on an American venture capitalist. The State company that we now own is going to be subcontractor to a venture capitalist. Does the Minister not get that there is something wrong with that? That would not be allowed in capitalist England or Trump's America or anywhere in the world. It is not that it is unique: it is crazy. I know the Minister is concerned about this and to drive it on. The Minister was wrong to meet him. I am not saying that the Minister met David McCourt for any underhand or corrupt reasons but he was wrong to meet him. If I was Minister I would not have met him. I am in opposition and I refused to meet him.

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