Coveney: Former politicians should forfeit their pensions

Bankers should be jailed and former politicians should forfeit their pensions, Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has suggested.

Mr Coveney said he would love to see bankers in the dock and senior politicians from previous governments lose pensions but that the country also needed forward-thinking solutions.

The minister contradicted previous reports that Labour colleagues walked out of Cabinet during budget negotiations and denied this took place.