Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

-----to try to ensure that our banking system never again makes the mistakes that were made in recent years. The investigation needs to examine the regulatory side of the banks, what the banks are doing, while cognisant of the fact that it is the courts which have primary responsibility for convicting people, if appropriate, who have carried out illegal activities within the banks.

It should also look at the macro-economic lessons we have to learn on all sides of this House, in terms of the implications for our fiscal and monetary policies as determined by our membership of the European Union. We in the Green Party are committed to make this process work, to make it public so that there will be appropriate hearings based on facts that are discovered and uncovered according to due process.

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