Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

No, the public will not decide that. I am making my case here. However the election turns out will not be based on that point. It will be based on a lot issues. If the Labour Party were depending on representation based on that issue, which would be an absurd suggestion to make, one would be suggesting that there was something wrong with the Labour Party people, which I do not suggest there is. That does not make sense either.

The Deputy next suggested that we were all fools. The decisions we made were based on the information available at that time. That is what we did. Subsequently, when due diligence was done and that crisis had passed, an investigation showed up corporate governance problems.

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