Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

It should be dealt with. This is the last time Deputies will get a chance to assess this legislation. The Minister knows as well as I do that there is a great deal of public concern. He may say it is frivolous and wrong-headed but there is a concern that Fianna Fáil politicians could use the nationalisation of the bank to advance the interests of debtors to the bank — big property developers with close relationships to politicians.

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