Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

What about the property rights of people other than developers, bankers and so on? What about the property rights of workers?

I share Senator Conway's concern about the costs of the banking inquiry on which I have been happy to serve. The lawyers are on €264 an hour and that amounts to €528,000 a year. These are costs which Senator Conway has rightly condemned and on which we need to keep a close eye.

I congratulate Mitchel McLaughlin on being the first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected from the Nationalist community and supported by the DUP. That is the kind of Northern Ireland we wish for.