Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I notice we will debate today the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003. I presume that is, in part, designed to prevent what a recently elected Member of Dublin Corporation, Alderman Leopold Bloom, called, "our buccaneering Vanderdeckens in their phantom ship of finance". I thought that was a better selection from the speech than Leopold Bloom's reference to the incorrigibility of humankind. "Mankind is incorrigible.....Why, look at our public life!".

I appreciate that readings from Ulysses are not part of the Order of Business.