Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There has been considerable scaremongering about the Bill, some of which is opportunist, populist and disingenuous. All of the Opposition speakers I have heard in the past hour and 35 minutes I have been here have been guilty of that. Sinn Féin is opposing the Bill. The logical conclusion of that is that Sinn Féin in the North should basically delete the equivalent provision for repossession under mortgage legislation in the North. If that is what it wants down here it should do the same up in the North. Of course, it will not do that because it is in government there. I suppose it is the bad cop up there and the good cop down here. Acting and behaving like that just has no credibility.

Deputy Mattie McGrath was a Member of the previous Dáil as a Member of the main Government party. He only jumped ship from that party over the stag hunting Bill. He supported everything else the Government did back then.

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