Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

This matter was the subject of a request to the Ceann Comhairle's office for a special notice question, which the Chair did not allow. The Government is putting an extra €2 billion into Anglo Irish Bank at a time when the Government is now turning to social welfare recipients and others to make contributions to the cuts. We need to have a debate on why this is happening, whether it is a wise approach and a wise use of public money. I ask the Taoiseach to make time available to properly debate this matter.

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