Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions Oral Answers - Ship Building Industry. Verolme shipyard equipment sale
Summary
McCartan objects to the liquidator selling Verolme’s equipment piecemeal and asks whether Government could help preserve it as a unit; the Minister and Deputy briefly clarify the scope of the broader question.
With regard to the Verolme shipyard, would the Minister not accept that the current approach of the liquidator, selling off piecemeal plant and equipment, is undesirable? Surely the Government should, and can, influence matters by taking steps to invest in the purchase of the plant in its entirety to preserve it as a unit?
Comment on this
I assume Deputy Sherlock's general question referred to the shipbuilding industry rather than——