Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----and further funding was put into AIB. It is the objective of the Labour Party and Fine Gael to recover this money for the taxpayer. I am happy to say we are well on the way to doing this, but it will take quite a significant period, I would have thought, before it is finalised. In understand Goldman Sachs is working in an advisory capacity on a pro bonobasis. It is simply a scoping exercise at the beginning of a process in which we hope to see significant funds being returned over a period to taxpayers and citizens. This is a good thing and is important.

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