Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is all very well to say that we will have some kind of an investigation or inquiry and that we will examine the regulatory system and so on, but the Taoiseach needs to be much franker with the Dáil and the public about the state of his knowledge of Irish Nationwide's conduct over the period during which he was Minister for Finance. It is not credible to suggest that he heard and saw nothing.

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