Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. The banker who received €850,000 yesterday was up to his neck in all of that. That is the reality. People are sick to their stomach that every time we have to deal with these issues there is some buyer in the way. When will there be leadership?

I and others sat through 15 or 16 hours of deliberation on Committee Stage and Report Stage amendments to the Personal Insolvency Bill and every time we raised the issue of there being no veto for the banks we were shot down. We understand the banks lobbied heavily to have control over that. What has happened in all of this? Where are the changes people were promised? Where is the hope that the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, gave in the lead up to the last election campaign? Can the Tánaiste give a definite response today as to whether the Labour Party backed that? Why did the Tánaiste not intervene? Why did he not honour the promise he made last November that there would be no more pay over €500,000?

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