Brennan hits back at O’Rourke

SEAMUS BRENNAN last night turned the tables on his former Cabinet colleague Mary O’Rourke after she led the Fianna Fáil attacks in the Seanad on his plan to break up Aer Rianta.

The Minister for Transport said the leader of the Seanad was perfectly entitled to express her views on the proposal but that he didn’t agree with her stance in favour of selling off part of Aer Rianta when she was responsible for that portfolio in the previous Government.

Directly referring to documented evidence of Ms O’Rourke’s previous advocacy of the introduction of private funding to Aer Rianta and consideration of part-privatisation proposals, Mr Brennan said this was not a path he wanted to go down.