Dan Boyle (Green Party)

-----had cold water poured on them by leaders of Fine Gael would indicate to me that they were ill thought out. Over the past 15 months, we have gone through widespread consultation involving independent officers, we have appointed a Financial Regulator from outside the State who had no previous connection with Irish financial services, a Governor of the Central Bank who was not appointed under the previous system whereby the Secretary General of the Department of Finance was upgraded. There is now a new way doing things and of facing difficulties. If Members on that side of the House were a real Opposition and if they cared about the future of this country-----