Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Some of them certainly are. They crawled under their stones for a couple of years but they are now beginning to emerge and the national broadcaster is beginning to feature them again. Some of them even have the audacity to tell us that they told us so. They did not. I am afraid to say that if they had, I do not think the newspapers would have published it. The newspapers were part of the vicious circle. They were making huge profits from fat property supplements and they were part of the collusion that went on between the big five estate agents, the newspapers themselves, the bankers and the auctioneers.

The Minister, six years later, has introduced the Bill to the House. We ought to take as much time as is necessary to get it right. There is not a great deal of activity out there at present and we have time on our hands on this one.

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