Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I withdraw it. Maybe he should be dealt with - I will put it that way. Even though I still feel strongly that he should be in jail, I withdraw my remark. I hope the day will come on which he will be brought to justice in some way to account for himself. There is no accountability at present.

The lady who does not pay her fine for not paying her television licence will end up in jail and there will be nobody in the House to say we need protection for her. There is no protection for such a woman but there is protection for the big fellow. The banks have run the country into the ground, not once or twice but three or four times. By God, we have let them away with it.

I hope the Acting Chairman, Deputy Wall, will be Ceann Comhairle soon because we need a change and new faces in the House. We need a new Government, new thinking and accountability. There is no accountability in this country. The agencies we put in place and for which we paid a lot of taxpayers' money failed the people and the banks were a disgrace.

I hope I will not have to withdraw my next remark: until I see a few of these fellows in jail, I will not be happy. A few of them have to go to jail to show the people what happened in the tent at the Galway races and other race meetings and what happened behind closed doors. The people must know that responsible individuals will pay a price for putting this country in hock. The latter have let down the people. People who died for this country would turn in their graves today and ask what they died for if they knew they left gangsters behind them that could run the country into the ground.

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