Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----in banks to deal with customers in difficult situations every day. They are not the people who should be the target of our ire here. It is senior decision-making in banks that is responsible for what happened in this scandal and that is why it is the most senior decision-makers in banks that the Minister for Finance met yesterday and will meet again today. He will make a comprehensive statement tomorrow on the back of those meetings and we expect as a Government that the banks will also make comprehensive statements before the end of the week in an effort to bring an end to the issue. If they do not, the Government will have to consider further how it will respond.

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