Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

There is no Cabinet committee on banking. There is a Cabinet that deals with banking. The Cabinet has been making many big decisions, as the Deputy said. The existence or otherwise of a committee is neither here nor there in that respect. As to this idea that one farms out all the work to all the committees and brings it back in as if one is out collecting sheep and bringing them in at evening time, that is not the purpose of committees.

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