Vulture funds’ committee refusal
The Leader regrets that vulture funds refused to appear before the finance committee and says Senator Coghlan can raise the matter during the Finance Bill debate.
Is the Leader trying to tell us something?
Comment on this
The Senator welcomed both the Courts Bill and the Prisons Bill. I believe their provisions will be generally acceptable to everybody.
Senator Paul Coghlan mentioned so-called debt investors or vulture funds. It is regrettable that they have refused to come before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. I am sure the Senator will make his points to the Minister for Finance when we debate the Finance Bill later today.
Senator Terry Leyden sided with the Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom on the stance he had adopted on the issue of bombing Syria, a move also supported by Senator James Heffernan. In between the votes last evening I turned on my television set and heard the speech made by Mr. Hilary Benn, the shadow Foreign Secretary. He made one of the finest speeches I had ever heard and for which he was applauded in the House of Commons, which was most unusual.