Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Just for clarification, if the State is going to spend €4 billion of taxpayers' money on this redress - and I suspect by the time it is completed it will be multiples of that - there is an encumbrance on the State to take action against those who, either through wilful neglect or abject failure, have allowed that to happen on their watch. It is to recover what the State will spend on behalf of the other taxpayers.

By the way, the people whose homes will be rebuilt are taxpayers too. They would prefer their tax euro to be going into public services to increase our capacity in the health service, put more gardaí on the street and more nurses in our wards than into rebuilding their homes, which though essential, should not have been necessary. It is right and fitting the State should pursue to the nth degree those who still have capital reserves and those companies that are very profitable. I hope we around here are alive to see that day come, even if they have to be taken through the courts to enlighten us as to what went on. Through the courts there must be discovery and all of that, which I hope will give us some insight into the way these people looked on those concerned here.