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

We have put legislation before the House this week. It is constructive legislation which would give the Central Bank the capacity to intervene for those 300,000 mortgage holders and also for the 46,000 mortgage holders who are at the mercy of vulture funds. Will the Taoiseach accept our legislation and move on from Second Stage to Committee Stage, given that the Minister of State, Deputy English, said that he agreed with the purpose and the objective of the Bill, or is it the case that the Taoiseach has given up on standard variable rate mortgage holders altogether?

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