David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

No; I am not. I am talking about what happens when public assets are sold off. That is wrong and I wonder why companies would pay such enormous amounts of money unless they were going to be able to print their own money out of it.

Mention was made of competition. It is about time we started revising drastically our view about the virtues of competition. It can drive people out of business sometimes. Unscrupulous people can use competition. We only have to look at what is happening to our domestic shops. Enormous supermarkets are coming in here selling trash, doing down local bakeries-----