Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Dáil is rising today with considerable progress made on this country's difficulties. We are rising having secured agreement at European Council level on the separation of bank debt from sovereign debt, something that many people on the Opposition side said could not be done. We have done it. We are rising in circumstances where, yesterday evening, this House completed Second Stage of the personal insolvency legislation, something they told us we would not introduce to deal with the issue of mortgage arrears.

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