Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

He is now coming in here with a pig in a poke and expecting us to sign off on this essentially bad Bill.

I must ask why this was necessary in the first place. Two weeks ago, as Mr. David McWilliams correctly stated, the Minister implicitly gave a guarantee of all deposits. As he had already done that effectively, what was different yesterday and what is different about the legislation here today, which tells us nothing?

By the way, last night and all day yesterday the Dáil was treated in the most disgraceful way that I have seen over the past 16 years——

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