Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

Will the Leader investigate when the Colm McCarthy report on the sale of national assets is expected to be before the Government? I hope we will have a debate on the question of our national assets, including Dublin Airport, ports and so on. We must examine everything in terms of what we can sell to raise funds internationally.

We should have a debate on the sale of local authority houses. In a sale of the century, we could get rid of the State's rented houses and let individuals develop those houses via insulation grants and so on. Raising funds in this way would be worthwhile and attractive at this point.

I found Mr. Kevin Myers's article in yesterday's Irish Independent quite offensive to members of Fianna Fáil.