Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the point made by Senator Ned O'Sullivan, a tiny minority is sending that appalling material. It does no one any justice and it does no favours to the Roman Catholic Church, which is struggling to try to deal with issues of child sexual abuse, to have a small minority hogging our e-mails and our post. Some of the material is appalling.

The Central Bank code of conduct was issued to banks last Thursday. I read through it over the weekend and it astounded me. It is a step in the wrong direction, a step backwards rather than a step forwards. It does not have at its heart the interests of the genuine, hard-pressed struggling people who are trying to hold onto their homes. The Central Bank should be ashamed of itself and if I had a copy of the code here I would tear it up. Banks are now permitted to hound people, hunt people and ring people as often as they like-----