Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----namely, who is intervening on behalf of the average customers of the banks, particularly those which are owned by the State. It appears to the ordinary punter that no one is intervening. The Government is certainly not doing so. Hence the need for the latter and the Irish Economic Management Council to, at a very minimum, meet representatives from the banks and put that fundamental issue to them.

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