Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

And the Bill. The Bill is a symptom in the same way the measles come out on the skin. It is a rash. The body politic and society is still ill and diseased. It is very easy to see it. As was said only a few minutes ago, small businesses have not been consulted. I am not getting telephone calls about small businesses not being paid, but I am getting phone calls about social protection, mortgage interest rates and mortgage loans that are impossible to repay and on which the Bank of Ireland will not engage meaningfully. They are the phone calls. It is not the stuff that the Ministers have dreamed up in their great imaginations as being important. They are not the things that matter. If one actually takes stock of what the big problems are------

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