Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Tens of thousands of young people have bought homes but they are in a legal limbo regarding the management of their properties. The Government keeps promising but does nothing. Those three lads on the front bench — the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Brennan, the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Ryan — could get up and do something about it, even if they are the only three Cabinet members left in the country.

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