Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I challenge those who have the letter to publish it and be damned. I have an indication as to who has it. There are copies available. I can tell Members for a start that it is in the Department of Finance and that the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, should publish it. No banking inquiry can take place until it is published. A gun was put to the heads of the late Brian Lenihan and Brian Cowen and if any one of the Members opposite had been there, he or she would have given into that threat also because it would have meant total disaster for the banking industry in Ireland and all of the multinational companies here would have been in crisis. Even John-Claude Trichet tried to deny his involvement, but it was sheer blackmail and he was responsible for it on behalf of the European Central Bank. Let this come out in the inquiry-----