Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

That is the position. There is no mystique or dithering. We have made a decision to bring forward the legislation and we have indicated a timeline, which we will stick to. The Opposition will not support it because it has been playing the populist game by saying we are bailing out the banks from the day we had difficulty with financial stability in this country.

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