Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

We should have a debate on the banks today. Again, I appeal to the investors in Irish Life & Permanent plc to demand an extraordinary general meeting and remove top management because they have let down the staff of the bank. The staff, decent, honest and hard-working young people, have been betrayed by their chief executive and management. Management knew Anglo Irish was a crooked bank, yet they were prepared to give €7 billion of investors' money for as long as it was required to prop it up. That is terrorism as far as I am concerned and is against the national interest.