Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The particular actions I raised in terms of amendments to the Bill and subsequently was ... and I raised this, by the way, with the Central Bank as well I was so concerned about it. In my own constituency, Deputy, there were people going door to door to local authority estates and they were landing outside a local authority house and saying to the householder "Well, I reckon this house is now worth €150,000. Do you have a mortgage on it? Are you buying it? What's the mortgage?" "It's €50,000." "Well, we're willing, because of the equity in your property maybe to give you a loan of €120,000", and that person often had the loan-----