Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I really feel really strongly about this and the reason I do is because it is passed off like that. We saw the austerity that was caused in terms of the cutbacks in the most vulnerable communities in this country. We are severely feeling the impact of it. This is not just a transaction without any human cost. We are feeling the human cost of that austerity now and we will continue to feel it in trying to catch that up, which Mr. Hayes knows, in many of the communities around Dublin and other areas where the people had to bear the burden. The banks are saying it to those people, many of whom were youngsters at the time and who were desperately impacted. It is too late in many cases to say now we have paid it back. I know this is maybe not a discussion for now, but I cannot just let it go with the banks patting themselves on the back to say they have given it back or are giving it back.