Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I shall answer the question if the Deputy will listen. Nobody can promise the Irish taxpayer that there is not a risk attached to this. Nobody can be certain what will be the value in ten years' time of some of the properties we have down in the docks or in County Tipperary. However, as sure as anything, if we were to follow the policy of the benches opposite, or of the Labour Party, and do nothing there would be no risk, but there would be a racing certainty that the Irish economy would go down with those banks as they would try to manage the situation into which they got themselves. They could not get us out of it without bringing down the economy with them.

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