Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a full range of interventions that should apply to everybody. The process must be taken on a case-by-case basis. Nobody can enunciate a general policy, as if there was a general policy of debt forgiveness, a person would be foolish to pay a debt. That will not happen and there will not be a general policy of debt forgiveness.