Noel Coonan (Fine Gael)

I support the sentiments expressed by Senator Brian Hayes and others on Northern Ireland. The vast majority of people on this island await, in eager anticipation, a final resolution of this problem. Everyone wishes it could be resolved.

Will the Leader take up with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the issue of banks and so-called respectable lending institutions employing hardened criminals to repossess goods on which people are defaulting? I have experience of this. These people knock on the door at the most opportune time, perhaps when a person is alone, and demand the keys of one's car and drive it away. Are such people covered by insurance? This gives credence to the fact that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. A more eminent person than I has stated that the rich govern the laws and the laws govern the poor.