Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Two reports are being prepared, which we should have in the next few weeks. The process will be quite simple. We will receive the two reports, the Government will consider them and then make decisions on foot of them. Those decisions, to be made not by me but by the Government, will be made in the next few weeks, once we receive the reports. However, I cannot - which the Deputy wants me to do today - tell her the decisions. I have not seen the reports and therefore I cannot make decisions on them. Of course I have my views on what should happen and I will bring them to the Cabinet table. I share with everybody in the House concern about protecting the family home. If I understand the tenor of Deputy Crawford's question, I believe the banks must be part of the solution and I also believe that MABS, in laying out and ascertaining the amount of debt in the first place and working out a financial plan, has a key role to play as a free State-provided service that is very professional.

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