Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I thank Members of the House for reinforcing what I and the Governor of the Central Bank said in regard to the position of depositors in Irish banks. The issue of the guarantee was ventilated again. I am not sure that the public wants to hear us endlessly argue about this.

Let us be clear, Deputy Burton and her party opposed the guarantee in principle and in totality. Deputy Burton, as she now seeks to represent it, now only objects to the blanket nature of the guarantee. Her party took a populist anti-bank line, which the Deputy has been peddling ever since. It is cheap politics. Let us not pretend otherwise.

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