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28 June 2013

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How did Anglo execs keep their jobs and perks, Pearse Doherty asks at Summer School

'People are rightly seething with anger and want these people to be held to account'

PEARSE DOHERTY TD told the Sinn Féin Summer School in County Cork on Friday night that citizens want to know how Anglo Irish Bank bosses kept their jobs, salaries and privileges when taxpayers forced to bail them out are suffering from the resultant austerity regime.

The Donegal deputy and Finance spokesperson told the 4th Sinn Féin Summer School in Baile Mhuirne:

"As we gather here this weekend, people across this country are still reeling in horror at the revelations in the Anglo tapes which clearly have demonstrate the contempt of those of the banking elite for the citizens of this country. 

"These tapes reveal a concerted effort by Anglo executives to defraud the Irish state. People are rightly seething with anger and want these people to be held to account. 

"They want to know why some of these people were allowed to keep their jobs and inflated salaries after the state bailed out the banks and at a time when struggling families, who never did a thing to create the crisis, were subject to brutal austerity measures.

"The need for radical political change to make this a fairer country, to break with the past and to make Ireland better place to live in, has never been clearer.

"The time has never been opportune or the mood of the people more prepared to confront head-on the vested interests who bankrupted this state and to ensure that never again can a privileged elite dictate the future of this country and the welfare of our citizens.

"Together, the people of Ireland have the ability to create a better Ireland.  But if we are to make progress we need to start a dialogue about what form a better Ireland should take, about how, even in times of economic difficulty, we can start laying the foundations for a better fairer society that vindicates the rights of citizens."

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