Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I can accept that things have changed with AIB and Bank of Ireland, in particular, but IBRC and Irish Nationwide Building Society were a different proposition. Most of us understood the promissory notes represented money that was being extinguished. That was the word used when some of us met the Governor of the Central Bank. I am reminded that Ashoka Mody, one of the people involved on the IMF side in the negotiations for the troika, was quite critical of the way Ireland had been treated. By turning the floating rate or promissory notes into sovereign debt, as we did in the Dáil, although I did not vote in favour of it, is the Department giving up on any prospect of relief on that front?