Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste is absolutely right that the people of this nation put the banks back on their feet by their hard work and forbearance over the past five years. In that context, what we have now discovered is an act of gross betrayal. Given the Ansbacher accounts, the DIRT inquiry, everything else that has happened and what the banks have gone through, and the enormous amount of taxpayers' money that was pumped into the banks to have a functioning banking system, one would imagine that they would have a moral responsibility. That comes to the net point I want the Tánaiste to address. We can talk about culture, changing systems and failure of systems, but will individuals who caused this dreadful harm be held accountable? Will the Tánaiste set out for the House the investigations she is talking about to ensure that individuals will be investigated where there is any evidence of collusion or fraud?

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