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Road Traffic Offences. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: They are few and far between.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review the decision to sell the majority State share in Aer Lingus in view of the strategic importance of the national airline to tourism and trade. [9518/06]

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister did not answer the basic question. Why is he proposing to sell the State share in Aer Lingus? Aer Lingus is a very successful company. It is a profitable company which has served the interests of the country well in terms of tourism and trade. As taxpayers, we all own the company. There is no logical rationale for the Minister's proposal to sell the company. It recently replaced...

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should stop giving us this old waffle. The company is positioned for growth. He should justify what he is proposing.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, in spite of what he said, the Minister accepts there is not an immediate need for investment.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Minister not do that?

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is operating from an ideological position. There is a deeply held view in his Department and in the Cabinet that the State has no business being in business and that it wants to off-load as many of the State's involvements in enterprise as possible. The Minister has still not provided any type of rationale for the proposed sale of Aer Lingus. Will he confirm that there is nothing...

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: No adviser said that.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Who said that?

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Who is saying that?

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Not as a rational investor.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is making points which are fundamentally untrue.

Air Services. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: They are being served with the airline in State ownership and they will continue to be.

Road Network. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Despite what the Minister said on Friday evening, when he got it so wrong.

Road Network. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister got it so wrong.

Road Network. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The political antennae were not working that night.

Road Network. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister said it and his spokesperson said it last night.

State Airports. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: When?

State Airports. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should ask the former Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan.

State Airports. (7 Mar 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Did the former Minister, Deputy Séamus Brennan, not know that?