Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There were significant arrears in respect of local authority tenant purchase and mortgages generally with local authorities. There are significant arrears anyway among people who have mortgages of one type or another, and because local authority mortgages tend to involve people who are in lower income bands, they tend to be under a great deal of stress. I have probably provided replies to parliamentary questions on the level of arrears, but I can get the Deputy that information. They are significant. One of the elements of this scheme is that it is more related to income, so we should not run into those difficulties as often as has occurred in the past.