Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach tells us that he does not know the figure that will be announced tomorrow and that it has not been finalised yet. Is that the way the financial affairs of the country are being run? Is the Taoiseach seriously telling us that the Government has made a decision to come in here and ask for another extension on the guarantee without knowing where we are in terms of the cost of the last one and, in particular, where we are in regard to the Anglo Irish Bank figure? A columnist in one of the newspapers this morning said that the first thing one does in a crisis is face up to the reality.

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