Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I have already said that I am happy with an independent analysis. Deputy McGrath had hoped the legal advice would come back stating the Bill was unconstitutional. It has not. He had hoped the Bills Office would say the Bill would need a money message. The office has said the preliminary decision is that it does not. It is therefore now in the Deputy's hands as to whether we are going to allow banks to sell family homes to vultures willy-nilly, as we saw last week. I am happy with an independent analysis. I am not happy that the Deputy is using that as a stalling mechanism. There is a sensible solution here. Allow the report to go ahead and allow the Bill to proceed to Committee Stage but without having that Stage until the independent analysis is done.