Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)

Senator Hanafin's remarks are outrageous and need to be withdrawn.

In the light of the enormous public anger that is apparent this morning, I call on the Leader to ask the Government to provide a public apology. If it provided such an apology, it might prove to be the starting point in assuaging the public anger to which I refer. Is it not clear that a distinction should have been made in the Government's approach to subordinated bondholders? The people concerned speculate for speculation's sake-----