Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I rise today to discuss the tracker mortgage scandal which has been one of the most shameful examples of wanton greed and arrogance ever displayed since the foundation of the State. Approximately 13,000 defenceless citizens of Ireland who were mostly in a bad bind already had their positions exacerbated by the very entities for which this State surrendered its sovereignty in order to support and prop up. None of us expect charity from banks but to inflict misery and pain needlessly on the coping classes is not acceptable, either in 1917 or 2017. This was not the work of middle ranking bank managers or clerks but a systemic attempt by senior managers to rob and evict their own customers. I am calling on the Leader and his smiling Taoiseach to come out from the bankers' shadows and lead on this issue. We need some leadership.