Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I do not accept that. Nobody is asking that the Oireachtas would have a role in the day to day operation of the bank. That is not the case. I cite again the example of the Health Service Executive, which is allowed to do more or less what it likes, and it suits the Government politically to distance itself from some of the madness that is going on. In regard to the HSE, I need not outline to Members of this House the catastrophic position in accident and emergency departments over the Christmas period and early in the new year. I do not want to see another financial institution on that model. There is a reasonable case to be made for an Oireachtas input at policy level and I ask the Minister to reconsider that.

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