Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Without wishing to digress further from the debate, it seems Deputy Niall Collins has identified the new Fianna Fáil party line, namely, that its leaders were not knaves but merely fools. I assure him that I never considered Brian Cowen or Brian Lenihan to be knaves, but their capacity to believe everything they were told by the banking sector shows they were very much fools. When anybody who comes to my office looking for anything, I do due diligence and think twice before giving them what they want.

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