Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I join colleagues in calling on the Minister for Finance to come to the House to outline clearly to us what plans the Government has to carry out an investigation into what happened five years ago.

I support Senator Lorraine Higgins’s call for the tapes from the other banks to be handed over. It was as a result of the Garda Síochána raiding Anglo Irish Bank that the tapes happened to come into the hands of a journalist, albeit five years later. I very much welcome the fact that the tapes came into the hands of Paul Williams. It is in the public interest. The tapes of other banks should be voluntarily handed over by the other banks that have been guaranteed by the State so that an investigation could be carried out.