Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----but it seems that was just all optics. The Government is not even saying now that it will talk to them about this savage increase, which represents cynical profiteering and, in my view, is not in the interests of the shareholder ultimately because it will damage the economy. The fundamental question that needs to be asked is whether is it about just getting the banks sorted or the economy sorted. It seems mortgage holders are at the end of the queue and there is complete indifference to their plight given the scale of the increase that will be taken out their weekly, monthly and annual household budgets. There is need to intervene in this case on behalf of the families and the wider economy as well.

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