Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I will try one more time. When the situation arose in 2008, this Government took the decisions that were necessary to deal with it. Had we pursued the policies proposed by the Labour Party, we would have seen the collapse of the Irish economy. That is a fact because Labour Party Deputies did not support the State guarantee which was necessary to avoid such an implosion of the financial system.

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