Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

——can go back to the race track without being offended by the sight of Fianna Fáil and its pals with their noses deep in the trough. If the tent had been closed down a long time ago we would not be where we are now.

Yesterday's revelation that the Minister for Finance did not read in full the report of the €7 billion deposit, shocked everybody in the country. This ironically is the same figure as the recapitalisation figure, as others have pointed out. The revelation may have even shocked the Minister himself. Sight has been lost of a second even more major fact, that the Minister indicated that the Taoiseach had not read or been given the report either.

See this speech in context