Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The new management and staffing arrangements of IBRC-Anglo Irish Bank were in place long before I became Minister for Finance. I have no role in the day-to-day running of any of the banks and decisions about who does and does not work in a bank are a matter for the board and management of the bank in question.

The Deputy is moving on to very dangerous ground in naming individuals and assuming culpability. This is exactly what happened when the former Deputy, Ms Mary Harney, engaged in a rant against the former Taoiseach, the late Charles Haughey, and a court subsequently found she had prejudiced the case and charges could not proceed.

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