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Mon 02 Feb 2009Begg says his call to nationalise banks is Ictu position
SENIOR UNION official David Begg has said his call to nationalise the banks was the position of the trade union movement and had nothing to do with his membership of the board of directors at the Central Bank.
In a speech at the protest march in Dublin on Saturday, Mr Begg, who is general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), said he believed that, sooner rather than later, the whole Irish banking system would have to be nationalised.
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