Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and it is good to hear he is meeting the board in the coming weeks and that he shares our concern regarding the continuation of the terms and conditions if the sale is to proceed. We also have to look at to whom it is proposed to sell this part of the State company. Killarney Waste Disposal is an unlimited company. There is a complete lack of transparency with regard to its group structure, its financial health and its profitability. Its accounts are not published. We do not know where the profits are going. There is a reason companies opt for unlimited structure, which is that it gives them much less transparency. We want to know whether the Minister is happy this strategic State asset is being sold to a company that has been fined in the past year for failings in the provision of its services.

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