Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

The amount allocated would not even allow for a doubling in the numbers who applied last year. There were 276 people put in prison last year for failing to make loan repayments. Not all of those people were jailed because of a failure to pay mortgages, but some were. Does this Minister think that is an adequate way of dealing with the situation?

The Minister said she flagged the attention of financial institutions to this issue and it is in the framework document. What exactly is she going to do to ensure financial institutions are not foreclosing on these people?

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