Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Does the Taoiseach acknowledge that implicit in the report is a devastating indictment of how the financial markets systems work, which are driven exclusively by the herds of speculators in search of private greed? Does he acknowledge that when the report refers to the many investors, consultants, analysts, rating agencies and the media, which incidentally kept very quiet about this because they were making millions from the developers and which lionised those characters who were making millions, that it is an indictment of the same financial markets to which the Taoiseach bends the knee today in hammering the living standards of our people?

Lastly, can citizens seriously have confidence that the Government will make any change? In response to a banker walking away into the sunset with €3 million from a bank that has been bailed out to the tune of €20 billion-----

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