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The Opposition has again urged the Government to abandon the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) as the Bill to establish it came before the Dáil again today.

Addressing the House today, Labour's Liz McManus noted that Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz last night said temporary nationalisation of the banks, if required, would be the better way to proceed.