Seanad debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
Central Mental Hospital: Motion.
The Department of Finance recently announced that there will be a sale of State property and that the Minister of State will be in charge of this. I am sure he is a very suitable person to be in charge of the sale which, it has been stated, will raise up to €100 million. That is a great deal of money. At the launch of the Office of Public Work's annual report last Monday, the Minister of State said that there are five to six sites of varying values which could be sold to raise this €100 million. I do not expect the Minister of State, for commercial reasons, to provide a list of all the sites he proposes to put forward for sale within the next year or so because that would not help in terms of their final sale price. On the other hand, I would like to know some of those that are going to come up for sale in the near future which will cause no concern on the property market. The Minister of State and the Department of Finance will have ideas about what should be done with the money. However, Members and people in general will also have ideas. It is a great pity that such a small number of people seem to have any input into how this not inconsiderable amount of money from the sale of our property is to be used.
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