Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

I do not understand the point of the Keane report but I know what the Government's reaction will involve: the setting up of another committee to kick the can further down the road and make people suffer more. This time it will be a 165 person committee; I presume the Ceann Comhairle is excluded. Now, the 165 man committee consisting of the Dáil is supposed to examine the report and come up with recommendations on the recommendations. When this process has been concluded, the Central Bank must go through it. No doubt it will have more recommendations to put on top of the existing recommendations. Then, Laurel and Hardy - I apologise, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Justice and Equality - will examine it with their civil servants, amounting to a committee by another name. I presume they will have suggestions to add to the existing suggestions.

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