Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)

Will the Tánaiste speak to the Taoiseach and her colleagues? Will she go back to the regulator and his staff, who came into our committee on two occasions to tell us that having scrutinised, researched and checked the loans in the banks, they had come up with a figure of approximately €39 billion? I accept that the Tánaiste cannot give the answer now. There is a big difference between €39 billion and €80 billion.

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