Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

That is the point I am making. The loophole is there to be exploited before the case gets to court. We are cutting off this loophole in the interests of the people of no property or no means. This is to protect the people of no property or no means to whom Deputy Lynch alluded. It is why we are moving with urgency.

I respectfully suggest that if I introduced the Bill next year and the practice became widespread, Deputies throughout the House would attack me for not moving quickly enough when I was alerted by the PIAB to the loophole that was being exploited.

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