Tony Mulcahy (Fine Gael)

It was defended in the Dáil yesterday to the effect that it is intended to send our children and their parents to the poorhouse; we will give them a council house. That is a great cure for the problem after we fattened the bankers by giving them €70 billion and let off the biggest borrowers and developers. We did not ask them to pay anything back but rather let them get off scot free. We are paying salaries of between €150,000 and €200,000 to some of them to keep their businesses going.