Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree with my colleague, Senator Wilson, on the issue of the banks and financial institutions terrorising people throughout the country. In the case in Wexford, the individuals employed by Friends First entered a farmyard by cutting a gate open at 5.30 a.m. and, effectively, stole a tractor from the yard. Friends First issued a statement this afternoon justifying its actions on the basis that they were within the law. If they are within the law, it is time the Government changed the law to protect the citizens of this country. People are at breaking point. How can financial institutions employ gangsters to remove property from people's private dwellings and farmyards? It is a disgrace. That is just one case, and there are hundreds of other cases throughout the country where bank personnel are arriving at doors and asking individuals to pay money which they simply cannot afford to pay. It is time the Government stopped the play-acting and messing around with the banks.

It appears the Government is in bed with the banks at the expense of the people.