Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

The Minister's answer worries me if he thinks that MABS is the only solution to the debt crisis. It is part of the answer but it is not the whole solution. The Government has done nothing in terms of enforcing debt procedures, regulating debt collection and providing any sort of new system of personal insolvency.

Has he any idea how many mortgage advice cases the 52 independent MABS companies have dealt with and what the success rate has been? There are almost 30,000 people in arrears and 250,000 in negative equity. What caseload is MABS carrying? What is the average waiting time for a face-to-face appointment with MABS?

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