Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The acting Ombudsman’s report, as Deputy Higgins has said, and the ongoing online engagement has been quite good. The sense of connectivity is one that we should acknowledge. I also wish to pay paid tribute to Ger Deering for his work. He was very accessible to us as members of the committee or as Members of the Oireachtas and I thank him for that.

To begin, I will flag a little private meeting I had yesterday where I spoke offline to the acting Ombudsman and, with the permission of the Chairman, I will raise with the Ombudsman a petition we had before us from a person in Cork, who I will not name today at the meeting. There is an ongoing saga which needs to be addressed in the unfairness to the injured party and in the engagement between banks and the people in question here. I hope that the acting Ombudsman will indulge me in raising that matter with her at a future date, if that is okay.