Seanad debates

Thursday, 25 April 2013

10:40 am

Photo of Jimmy HarteJimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am sure those salaries were discussed in the Galway tent at the time and there was no talk of reducing the €2 million to €800,000 or €500,000. I am totally opposed to any bank employee getting €800,000, €600,000 or €500,000 and I fully support the calls from my Labour Party colleagues in the Dáil that this should not have happened. The Minister should have objected but that would have been a futile exercise and I understand his stance. Ordinary people want to see the Government take on the banks, which is what we are doing unlike the previous Government.

A person appeared on last night's news bulletins and spoke about Bank of Ireland's AGM. I will not mention the name of that individual but he is a former Senator and in the past he proposed that Seán FitzPatrick should have been Governor of the Central Bank. That is more revisionism.

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