Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The CRH share price is remarkably stable and is outperforming other share prices on the ISEQ index. Is this anything to do with the fact that we are going to pass a Bill in this House this week - it is going to be guillotined - that will transfer all the cost of all the remediation of all the dodgy dealings in quarries for decades in Ireland to the Exchequer? There will be no come back. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has to balance that cost with the cost of providing badly needed funding for University Hospital Limerick, childcare, a matter raised by Deputy Gannon, and many competing needs in our State. Is he happy that the quarries that provided the dodgy materials for profit are going to get away scot-free and that the Exchequer is going to carry all of the cost one more time.? That cost will be will be landed on the Exchequer and off we will go on our holidays. Does the Minister think this is okay?

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