Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There were not inter-party discussions, Deputy, about the decisions to be made by the different parties, for the reason that the guarantee happened overnight and during the night. And I think people woke up to hear it being announced on RTE on the morning and there was considerable astonishment, shock, dismay. I think all of the parties, and certainly in the Labour Party, we were invited to meet representatives of the Department of Finance, who were going to brief us, and that happened at intervals immediately after the guarantee on the day, and in several days afterwards. I have to say, Deputy, that in the briefings that I received I asked a couple of questions in relation to two institutions, Anglo Irish-----