Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If the Government intends to keep the provision, it should at least allow the Houses of the Oireachtas to debate it. The Minister of State has said, rightly, that we might never have to use it, but what if the day comes when the Minister decides to put €6 billion into a failed credit institution? At that point those in opposition and outside the Government will have no recourse to debate the matter in the House, since there would be no legislative basis on which to call for it.

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