Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 October 2017

10:30 am

Photo of Marie Louise O'DonnellMarie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

----- which left this island? It left this island with the deeds of my house and has not been seen since. When I attempted to contact the bank, I learned it was now owned by Pepper, the vulture fund. This is another investigation that is coming down the line. We have nobody to talk to, we do not know our legal rights, we do not know what we signed or did not sign and it was just taken from us. I am delighted that the Government is doing what it is doing about tracker mortgages but there is another problem ahead. Bank of Scotland, Ireland, no longer operates on this island and it has taken our deeds and none of us knows where they are or where to find them.

I remind Senator McDowell who spoke of low-hanging fruit and soft options, which is the kind of language one would hear in Ranelagh, that I lived in Ballymun for 25 years. The Senator might have passed through it on the way to Ranelagh. I lived there and I loved it. It was full of community and action -----

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