Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

He thinks there should be an inquiry. He is not the first to do so. When the Taoiseach first came into the House with his bank guarantee idea, the Labour Party proposed the sending in of an inspector to the banks. We proposed an oversight committee for NAMA. Mr. Colm McCarthy, highly favoured on the Taoiseach's side of the House, proposed there should be a DIRT-style inquiry. There were suggestions there would be some kind of a parliamentary investigation. The word on the grapevine, however, is that the Taoiseach himself blocked the holding of a parliamentary investigation into the banking situation.

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