Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I second the amendment by my colleague, Senator O’Brien. I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Norris. I have seen the reports as well. For far too long Parliament has been subservient to Government, and the people are subservient to all of us. It seems now that the Government is subservient to civil servants and that is fundamentally wrong. I would welcome if any information could be made available in the context of the liquidation of IBRC. Senator Norris is correct. As a result of the liquidation of IBRC, in work-outs with a number of properties around the country where sales were close to completion, all of them have now been put on hold. No information in connection with them can be shared with anybody and the reality is that the people once again come last. As many of us on both sides of this House have said, it is time that the people began to come first in all of our considerations in this House.