Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage.
4:00 pm
Brendan Ryan (Labour)
I am, I am just making an analogy. If many of the builders who pay €100,000 for a car were told by the garages from which they buy them that they would have to pay 90% of the cost up-front before getting them, which might take six months, they would tell them to get lost. The idea that they would have to order and pay for a car now and wait for its delivery would cause apoplexy among those who believe it to be perfectly reasonable to——
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