Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach asserts that the decision had to be made in respect of Anglo Irish Bank and having regard to the full nature and extent of the guarantee. He leads us to believe that the decision was taken in the national economic interest. Nothing I have heard since September 2008 convinces me that was the case. I believe that the Taoiseach and the Government made that decision in September 2008 not in the best economic interest of the nation but in the best personal interests of those vested interests who I believe the Government was trying to protect on that occasion.

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