Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am genuinely at a loss, as is the public. Someone sat down with the board of the AIB and I do not know what influence that person used. Perhaps it was it the influence of someone who is very wealthy or several people who are very wealthy or perhaps there was a genuine consideration that this media company should survive and job losses should be avoided. That would be a reasonable basis for the writing off of debts, although there should be a quid pro quo for that. There is talk of the bank taking equity, although it goes from-----

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