Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

The Minister is playing with the House. He appears to offer a crumb here and there but, in effect, as the bankers would put it, it is business as usual.

If we are sceptical about the regulator appearing before an Oireachtas committee and opening his heart to it and telling it as it is, it is because we have bitter experience. All during the spring and summer preceding the crash in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide that led to the bank guarantee-----

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