Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

We have the likes of Alan Dukes and other directors on the banks' boards to represent this House's and the nation's interests.

Deputy Bruton is correct that the international markets have got our banks and our country wrong. As deep and as fearful as the crisis is, we will have the opportunity and ability to get out of it because we are an enterprising and capable people. We will gain from this. We will move away from the obsession with property prices in which young people were condemned to spend their lives working to pay off a mortgage for a stupid bank. Thank God we are going away from that model and moving to a different model, starting from today.

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