David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I believe there is an unparalleled avalanche of homelessness facing us. We are incapable of dealing with the few thousand there are already. What will we do when it is a couple of hundred thousand?

I completely disagreed with the previous Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, a man for whom I have a certain amount of respect, when he said that vultures were a good thing as they picked over the corpses. We should remember that these are the corpses of the lives of Irish citizens and the vulture funds should be stopped in their tracks and if possible kicked out of this country.

I have about three or four quick questions. I will direct the next question to Mr. Honohan. I have always felt that property rights were trumped in the Constitution by the consideration of the public good. Does he think I am right? It has never been tried. No Government has ever had the balls to do it.