Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I will try to be helpful. These questions are in the national interest. As I do not want to be adversarial about this, I invite the Taoiseach, with due respect to the answer he has given, to try to answer my questions a second time. The issue in respect of the senior civil servant at the Department of Finance is not whether or not the Department of Finance gave approval to the arrangements between Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Life & Permanent. It is accepted that it did not approve or give, as the Taoiseach said, an imprimatur to it. The question is whether it gave the nod to it. That is what I want the Taoiseach to address. That is important.

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