Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

I was slightly amused to hear Senator Darragh O'Brien speak about State assets. There would be no harm in having a debate on the sale of State assets, if the Leader was prepared to grant it, but I am wondering whether the Senator is again trying to rewrite history on the commitments of his party on the sale of State assets. In appointing Mr. Colm McCarthy in June 2010 to draw up his first report five months before the previous Government signed the original memorandum of understanding with the European Union and the IMF the figure his party had in mind, as we discovered on entering office, was €5 billion.