Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The funny thing about it is the Cathaoirleach is very seldom wrong but she is wrong about that and I will tell her why. If I put up a sign in my shop tomorrow morning that states I am giving away cucumbers but I do not have a cucumber inside my shop, that is a misleading sign. If people have signs up saying “We're backing brave” and they are not backing brave, for example, and there are business people and couples saying “Take a chance on me” and the bank is continuously saying “No, no, no”, which is what it is doing, those signs are misleading. What other avenue can we go down to get those signs taken down? I do not want people to be codded, fooled and misled by banks that we bailed out in the first instance.

The only reason the doors are open in AIB and Bank of Ireland is because we kept them open. When I say “we”, I mean the taxpayers and workers of Ireland, the people who put their shoulder to the wheel when the whole thing was in chaos and crisis. It was we who bailed them out. I want to know whether the misleading signs can be taken down. Surely be to God there is a proper prudence and governance when it comes to information. If false information is given out, I want something done. If the deputy governor is saying “No”, I want to him to say he will do nothing about it. Can my grievance at least be taken back to the manager, the CEO and the people at the helm of AIB and for them to be told that I am saying to take their goddamn misleading lies off of their banks?