Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That cuts no ice here. Some of these international audiences are not aware of the history of the historic party of Fianna Fáil. It was important to explain the context in which this property collapse took place. If the Deputy reads his English, he will notice I did not say "all of the people" were responsible. In fact in my state of the nation address I said that the people were not responsible. I have pointed out to Deputies Martin and Adams how the incentivised scheme in banking regimes fired out money left, right and centre without it even being requested. Of course the Deputy does not want to accept that. On the panel discussions in which he has participated he has failed pathetically to explain what he is on about except that he keeps coming up with the recurring words of "austerity", "hardship", "overlord" and others.

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