Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

A number of good questions have been put by Deputy Kenny which give me the opportunity to put matters on the record of the House. First, there was a Cabinet meeting which arrived at the decision to nationalise Anglo Irish Bank. The various newspaper reports that it was a purely incorporeal meeting are inaccurate. The matter was of some urgency and the Taoiseach was in Japan but a meeting of the Cabinet took place and was presided over by the Tánaiste. A number of Ministers were present and at all stages our colleagues in Government from the Green Party participated in these decisions and were fully informed of them.

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