Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach will recall that when the Government introduced the bank guarantee at the end of September 2008, he and the Minister for Finance assured us it would not cost taxpayers anything. Since then we have had to pay €4 billion to Anglo Irish Bank and €7 billion to AIB and Bank of Ireland; on top of this we have the NAMA legislation. Now that the banks have got the money and the NAMA legislation in their back pockets-----

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