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

Perhaps they would but in a situation where we own AIB and a significant portion of Bank of Ireland, do we not have a responsibility to ask why different standards are being applied? A major company like INM, with massive debts, can go before the board of a bank that we own and have those debts written off. We do not know why; it could be a favour for friends or to keep the business going or it could be a combination of both.

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