Accusations that Finance Minister Michael Noonan is a vulture-fund lover sparked a major row at the Oireachtas Housing Committee yesterday.
During his contribution to the committee, Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation chief David Hall was speaking about the lack of supply of new homes when he spoke about Mr Noonan.
Fine Gael deputies objected to the remark and the disagreement led one TD to walk out.
Mr Hall had been answering questions from AAA-PBP TD Ruth Coppinger when he criticised Mr Noonan.
Ms Coppinger referred to Mr Noonans previous comments to the committee where he said that vultures provide a very good service in the ecology through cleaning up dead animals that are littered across the landscape.
She noted that Mr Noonan ha…
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