Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

What the Minister is actually saying is he will not do anything about this rip-off. He is saying that what is being done is good enough and people should be happy about it. He is saying that there is nothing he can do about a cost of more than €6,000 a year for a couple in which one or both have lost their jobs and who are facing a crisis situation and he is not even looking to do anything about it. He does not mind that the banks lied to him and lied to the public and that they are able to get away with that. That is simply not acceptable. It will not be acceptable to the people who are faced with paying that €6,000. We have a situation where there is partial State ownership of a number of banks but the Minister is not talking about using that State ownership or doing anything further to deal with this issue.

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