Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Does the Minister have an estimate of how much the taxpayer will have to put in to the two counterparty institutions, namely, Irish Life & Permanent and the Irish Nationwide Building Society, in order to prop them up?

Did it never cross the Minister's mind to sack the board of the regulator, given that those people who are industry insiders — I do not know if there are any outsiders — all worked in this, that and the other bank and financial institution? The Minister could then appoint people with a fresh vision who perhaps did not lunch in the same clubs, play golf in the same spot or go to the same yacht club.

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