Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One does not have to travel far to see the fallout from the collapse of the banking sector. Week in and week out, one can see people being hauled before the repossession courts because they are unable to keep up mortgage repayments. Sometimes they lose their home and, tragically, some of them even lose their lives. At the same time, the longest criminal trial in the history of the State collapsed and Judge Aylmer was scathing of the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement. We commissioned a report and we now get the sanitised version of what happened. I cannot believe the Minister can come into the House and say the Attorney General advised this course of action. Across the water, we see that the UK Government has been found to have held parliament in contempt by not publishing the attorney general's advice. It is shameful that the full report of the ODCE has not been laid before this House in order that Parliament can discuss it. At this late stage, it should be published. Everybody who has suffered deserves to know why one of the biggest and longest criminal trials in the history of the State, which was related to the banking system, failed miserably. The State is failing again.

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