Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)

I will not be sneered at. At committees of this House the staff of the regulator who work on behalf of the people clarified twice, in October last and again in January, what the figure was and it is not good enough to state that the Government will take the banks' word for it. The regulator, who had checked all their loans, told us it was €40 billion.

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