Mr. Brendan Burgess:

When I heard the committee was having those hearings, I contacted it and identified a person from whom it needed to hear. The committee brought her in. I am familiar with one of the other cases, that of Ms Helen Grogan. She and I went to the Permanent TSB AGM yesterday and we articulated her case very strongly and directly. So did everybody else. She made a great presentation. I have to be careful about what I say. The committee was saying to people it was terrible that they lost their tracker mortgages and it asked them to tell members about the impact. The committee did not ask whether there were any other issues in their lives at the time and whether they had other financial difficulties.