Gilmore deliberately dishonest on government bank action - Kelleher

"The Labour leader failed to provide one iota of evidence to back up this claim."

"Rather he continued his policy of toxic insinuation. He knows it's nonsense but he does it anyway."

"It is wilfully and deliberately dishonest. It is wrong and it does the country a disservice at a time of crisis."

"The reality of course is that the action on banks is being taken in the interests of the economy and the country."

"This is about access to credit to keep businesses open, to try and manage and survive through this very difficult period."

"This is about making sure that businesses have the access to the funds they need from Irish banks and that has not been the case up to now because of the mispriced loans in these banks."

"We've got to place those bad assets somewhere else, take it off the balance sheets of the banks, and put it into an assets management agency."

"When this happens this will help the economy get moving again. That’s the motivation behind this move. Any suggestion of other motivations is totally false and it is dishonest to make or insinuate them."