Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

At lunchtime, the so-called Independent Alliance, including the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Finian McGrath and Halligan, stated that a criminal investigation was needed into the banks at the centre of the tracker mortgage controversy. They also stated:

The allegations of fraud which have been made more than merit a top-level criminal investigation. [...] The time for talking is over. The banks were given plenty of notice that this was a problem they had to solve. Now it is obvious that a criminal investigation is needed to get to the bottom of the scandal.

They were all over the media at lunchtime. They were on RTÉ television, radio, the newspapers and social media. By mid-afternoon, they had disappeared. Where are they tonight? Where is the Minister, Deputy Ross, tonight? Where is the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, tonight? Where is the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, tonight?

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