Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is what the Taoiseach has led us to believe. Let us be clear. First, did the Taoiseach discuss the bank's business at the dinner or the golf outing? Second, will he put on the record of the House all of his contacts with Anglo Irish Bank between the beginning of 2008 and the time of its nationalisation? I am referring to his meetings, formal, informal, social or whatever, with the bank's officers or members of its board of directors.

The Taoiseach went to considerable length to address the Labour Party in his response to Deputy Kenny, but is the bottom line not that the Government provided a bailout, a guarantee, to a bust bank and that the people must now pay for this through reduced incomes and social welfare payments, additional taxes, a loss of business and the economic problem with which they are trying to cope?

See this speech in context