Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister made the point, which Deputy McGrath picked up on, regarding the role played by the victims of the tracker scandal and the committee and the role played by the Minister after the meeting with the leaders of the five institutions in October. It is important to recognise that the Minister did play a positive role at that point in time. I challenged the former Minister and the former Taoiseach to call in the bankers in January of last year. Knowing the pain and suffering the victims of the tracker mortgage scandal have endured, does the Minister regret that the Government did not do that and waited another nine months? Does he regret that the Government did not act at that time and indeed earlier?