Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government abandoned that trick last Christmas and it moved on to talk about selling AIB which would realise a profit because it is making money again. Why is it making money? It is because it charging 2 percentage points above the European average. That is what the Government is standing over and that is what it will be judged on.

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