Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That is not satisfactory. Does the Taoiseach not understand the anger of people on the streets and throughout the country at this continual carry-on? I am not asking the Government to interfere in the course of justice. The Taoiseach said that all resources are being made available in order that this can be brought before the Director of Public Prosecutions, but they are not being made available because there are encrypted files owned by Anglo Irish Bank with information owned by that bank. Those files and the contents of them are not being released and cannot be accessed because they are encrypted. The Taoiseach owns the bank. The people who encrypted those files are responsible for the obstruction of justice in the sense that this information is not being made available to the prosecuting authorities. The Taoiseach has the key to release that because he can instruct Anglo Irish Bank to take a civil action against those people in order that the encrypted files can be brought to the knowledge of the prosecuting authorities. That is a resource the Taoiseach can use. The people want to see that this is brought to finality.

In view of the Minister for Justice and Law Reform having said last month that it is a criminal offence to withhold information and this information is being withheld, I ask the Taoiseach again if he will instruct Anglo Irish Bank to sue in these cases in order that these files can be unencrypted.

While I am on my feet, the situation regarding Anglo Irish Bank and the Taoiseach's relationship with it arose again at the weekend.

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