Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am. First, I want a Minister to come to the House to answer the question. As I listened to the budget I felt as if I was becoming like a larger lemon every five minutes because we gave €10 million to Priory Hall, which was the right thing to do for those people who were in that situation, but in spite of all the Priory Halls and ghost estates around the country, not one builder, county councillor, planner, architectural firm, engineering firm or anyone else has been brought to book. Not one person has been made responsible yet the aged community are outside the Dáil and we are asking them on a daily basis to take decreases and cuts. How do we consider that to be fair play? They have not seen one example of justice. I would like a Minister to come to the House to tell me how the people who have created the situation where cuts are taken from 80 year olds and 90 year olds - cuts to their pension, lifestyle, telephone allowance and electricity - can do so. How could one ask people to do that and to take any form of cut when we have not yet brought to book the people who brought the situation about? I would like some Ministers to come to the House to answer that question.