Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not think that Mr. Masding has looked at all the other alternatives so I do not share his opinion on that especially on enabling people to have security within their own homes, and to give people a chance.

I want to put a couple of further points to Mr. Masding and we have limited time. Did Mr. Masding speak to Start Mortgages about its non-attendance at this committee meeting today? Did Mr. Masding have any discussion about this before today and at what point did he know that Start Mortgages was not going to be here with him? For the committee to have Permanent TSB and to have Start Mortgages here would give us some reassurance, or we could have some guarantees on the public record from the organisation to which Mr. Masding is passing these loans.