Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

On a point of order, this is an absolutely outrageous scenario. It is a measure of the Government's abandonment not just of the customers of Permanent TSB, but of all distressed mortgage holders. It is an absolute disgrace that the Government does not have the courtesy to bring forward a Minister to sit, to listen to the debate and to respond. There must be some mechanism within Standing Orders to bring this charade to a halt. It is an absolute disgrace.

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