Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I am asking the Taoiseach what we are getting in return for making a decision regarding this proposition. We are not getting the opportunity to hold executives and those at the helm of these banking institutions to account, to hold them to book or to take the decision to sack them. There is no package here where we will protect the countless thousands of Irish families who do not know if they will be able to sustain the mortgage repayments on their homes over the time ahead and who run the risk, as others have already done, of losing their family home. These all are very serious matters, and yet we are being asked to approve the pouring of billions of euro in to the banking system. This Government has no mandate for this proposition. Let there be no mistake about it, the Taoiseach has no mandate,-----

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