Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

Perhaps that was because to have introduced this kind of radical change would have been to completely alter the DNA of successive Fianna Fáil leaderships. Government policy was designed to help developers and speculators to make huge profits for which ordinary taxpayers are now paying.

A bank without any systemic importance to the State was bailed out because of connections between those involved and those in government.

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