Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

During the Japanese banking collapse, bankers offered some apology. I remember the famous scene of the banker bursting into tears because of the number of jobs lost in his bank and his personal failure. We have the opposite in Ireland. Seán Fitzpatrick, the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, went on Marian Finucane's radio programme, offered no apology and suggested that we should tax child benefit.

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