Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

-----will remember that night with pain, anxiety and bitterness?

I am delighted the Minister for Finance is here this evening. I have no doubt there was a particular reason, maybe a good reason, for the decision that was taken that night, but I do not know about it, and I am a Member of the Oireachtas. There are 4 million people here and they do not know. The least they would have expected, with all the investigations of every aspect of Irish life, is that everything up to and including the decision that was taken that night would be opened up to investigation; but this has not happened. It is a bit like holding an investigation into a house burglary which deals with everything up to the night the robbery takes place but leaves the actual robbery out of it.

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