Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The reality is that if a person is building a house with €50,000 or €60,000 worth of materials, the person that supplied them, that is, the merchant or the hardware business, would pay back to the bank approximately €1,000 of the money they took in because they accepted this card.

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