Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

The Government cannot pretend one week it is concerned about the financial institutions and their solvency and liquidity and then hammer the customer the following week. It is the ordinary consumer who puts a few bob into a savings account in a bank that is being hammered. In case he or she escapes all the other traps the Government has laid, in it comes with the heavy hand and clobbers him or her once more.

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