Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government stated that it would ask the bank to forego a 0.25% increase. Why has that never materialised? Will the Minister call in the banks now, just as he did less than two years ago, and put it to them in the middle of this mortgage crisis that it makes absolutely no sense to increase the rate? I direct the Minster to my original question: what is his view on the bank increasing the rate?

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