Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

There is one question that haunts this debate and no Minister has attempted to answer it so far. How can policy remain dominated by one purpose to the exclusion of all else, that is, that no bank should be allowed to fail and yet none should be properly nationalised? That question was answered by this Government last September in its ill-advised blanket guarantee. Unfortunately, neither Fine Gael nor Sinn Féin gave that guarantee the kind of scrutiny or objection that would perhaps have made Fianna Fáil think twice.

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