Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

We agree with today's Order of Business as proposed by the Leader of the House.

Like my colleagues, and I suspect the entire country, I listened carefully yesterday to what the Taoiseach said in the other House about the controversy that has raged for the past few weeks. I have not spoken about this matter since I raised it on the first day we resumed sittings. I find it difficult to believe the then Minister for Finance had no operating bank account in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Cash transactions were the order of the day.