Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Green Party has engaged in several difficult actions. First, we faced up to this problem and we have tried to take control of it in a way we think is the least costly for the taxpayer. However, it is more important that we learn lessons to change the culture in the banking system and in our markets in order that such failures do not happen again and that the State is not left with the task of holding the country together when the market fails and we can move on to recovery.

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