Eamon Ryan: Debtors will be pursued

THE Green Party warned 10 years ago that “mad lending” at Anglo Irish Bank would land the country in trouble, Energy Minister Eamon Ryan claimed last night.

The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources said recent revelations about the bank, which was nationalised last month, were no surprise to the junior coalition party.

“We knew that there was a bank which was heavily indebted or had heavy debts in the property side,” he said. “We did not have the particular customer details but we knew the scale of it,” he added.