Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

The shareholders were well burned; the Government did not have to do that. Ask anyone who had a few bob invested. The shareholders were gone.

The Government somehow suggested the guarantee was the root of the problem. However, €3 billion of unsecured debt is sitting in Anglo Irish Bank which is not covered by the bank guarantee to which the Government accuses us of signing up.

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