Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is like Monopoly. I have often used the phrase Monopoly money here. The State did not save that bank. It was a basket case. It was not saved. Is it not the case that what we did was to put money in a circular movement from taxpayers, through the Government, to pay off creditors, bondholders, unsecured bondholders and so on? They were too big to let fail.