Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

The kernel of the issue is that if we do not have a functioning banking system - and we should be honest that much of the commentary in this House for the past two years when I was on the other side of the House was commentary to the effect that we should burn the bondholders and that the country was banjaxed, which undermined what the Government was trying to achieve-----

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