Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach did not answer the straight question I asked him. Does he believe it is possible for this country to move forward without assistance now from a European bailout? He did not answer that question but went off on tangents again about discussions on the economy and all the rest of it. The point is that the banking policy of the Government and particularly of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, has been a catastrophic failure. The Taoiseach did not tell the people the truth when the Government introduced the banking guarantee here in the first place because it covered every conceivable loss with its blanket guarantee. The Taoiseach has always told us that he accepts responsibility for his actions in politics. Does he accept that his banking policy has been a catastrophic failure? These people from the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank are not coming here on Thursday-----

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