By Fionnan Sheahan Political Editor

Wednesday December 30 2009

ROGUE bankers will face the courts in 2010 over their "malpractice" and "improper conduct" a cabinet minister predicted last night.

Energy Minister Eamon Ryan is the first member of the Government to publicly indicate that he expects legal action to be taken next year.

"I can't believe in the scale of our banking problem that it didn't go beyond incompetence into malpractice," he said.

"Given the scale, we do have to pursue every legal means to take anyone who was engaged in improper conduct into the courts," he said. "I think that given the amount of resources (gone into the investigation) I hope there could be an action," he added.

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