Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The bottom line is that the Taoiseach did not listen to the warnings, did not do enough and did not take action. Last Thursday he described what has happened as a "stunning failure of corporate governance". It was a stunning failure - a stunning failure of government and by the Taoiseach in particular because it was he, as Minister for Finance, who was in charge during all of that period.

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