Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Money from the National Pensions Reserve Fund is being paid over to fund the banks because the Government for the past ten years fuelled a property bubble and stood over irresponsible lending and borrowing, without proper regulation. We are now in a situation where the banks are in trouble and the Government has to beggar ordinary people in order to pay for the economy.

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