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

How else can we reconcile the party’s performance on this issue?

We have just watched the Deputy condemn the Government’s proposal in respect of industry contributing to the cost of mica redress. Just last week, her colleague, Deputy Doherty, stood in this House, in the same place as the Deputy, and declared, "I also welcome the defective concrete products levy." I then listened to comrade Ó Broin on “Morning Ireland” this morning dodging and weaving on the issue, as only he can, and being Jesuitical in his approach. He said that, yes, of course, we need to make the industry responsible for defective concrete products bear some of the financial burden, but not like this. He then has the ghost of a plan that no one would see or feel involving only the big developers, the big banks - when in doubt, Deputy Ó Broin reaches for the banks - and perhaps, then, estate agents or the bigger estate agents.

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