Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Nevertheless, a bank advanced very substantial amounts of money to a former leader of the country to gamble on speculative shares. The Government that person led had actually rescued Allied Irish Banks from its significant loss in respect of the Insurance Corporation of Ireland.