Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no protection in it for the mortgage holders and those in distress. I call on the Leader to facilitate the request of my colleague, Senator Byrne, for an amendment to the Order of Business to discuss the issue. The game goes on and the people writing the legislation are not the legislators. The Minister would not outline what changes he has allowed to be made to the legislation following the lobbying by the banks. That is an appalling abuse of the parliamentary process by the banks. If we wanted openness and transparency, then the Minister would be able to tell us what the legislation looked like before the banks got hold of it and what it looked like afterwards.