Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to limiting the granting of a financial licence to financial institutions selling mortgages and related property products that they have to partake in State run mortgage relief schemes such as the mortgage to rent scheme. [45831/12]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will be aware that last October the Government published the Report of the Inter-Departmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears (“Keane Report”). The ‘Keane Report’ recommended, as one of a range of measures that could be deployed to assist distressed mortgage holders, the introduction of a mortgage to rent scheme for appropriate cases. The Minister for Housing and Planning formally launched the mortgage to rent scheme on a nationwide basis at the end of June 2012. It is now one of the options available in appropriate cases in the roll-out of the lender’s Mortgage Arrears and Resolution Strategies. Regarding the licensing of banks the inclusion of conditions on such licences is a matter for the Central Bank under the Central Bank Act, 1971.