Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Government made very clear what it is going to do in the revised programme for Government, which recognises we have a real problem. As a country we became indebted way beyond what we should have and now we must work our way through that debt. We cannot allow a situation develop where families, who as a result of the economic downturn and through no fault of their own or an unwillingness to pay off their debts, must leave their homes. We have given a commitment to those people that we will not allow that happen.

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