Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Whatever was said did not suggest the bank was about to go under. I guarantee the House that was not the situation. The issues were the nose dive in the commercial property market, which took place in the second half of 2008, and all the corporate governance issues that arose afterwards.

This is not the point anyway. The central suggestion here is that, by having this contact, I did things I should not have done, I asked or directed people to do things they should not have done, I did this or I did that. It is not true.

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