Mr. Dave Coleman:

To follow up on what Deputy O'Callaghan said, I did a case recently on behalf of 600 plaintiffs against a non-Irish bank. The defendants asked me why I was taking the case. I was then sued personally in champerty. I had to retain lawyers and we had to fight that case. The main case was stood up. We fought it and won it.

I got my costs. We then came back and they settled at the last minute in the other case. The defendant will play the man and not the ball every time and the more one puts in the Bill to allow that the ordinary citizen in the street who has from zero to limitless wealth is protected, the more one will achieve for the cohort of people which is the State.