Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am coming to a question. The State has given an extraordinarily generous guarantee to the banking system. PricewaterhouseCoopers was appointed to examine the financial state of the banks and what we had got ourselves into. It beggars belief that the Minister did not read the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, even if one accepts that he was very stretched on time during the period concerned. It is unbelievable that he would not have read the section of the report about Anglo Irish Bank, and that we have ended up in a situation——-

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