Lenihan: Taoiseach not solely responsible for banking crisis

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has said the Taoiseach cannot bear sole responsiblilty for the failures of successive administrations that led to the banking crisis.

Fine Gael will table a motion of no confidence in Brian Cowen in the Dáil this morning after two reports into the banking crisis, published yesterday, highlighted his budgets as Finance Minister as adding 'fuel to the fire' in the property boom.