Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

I wish to raise two matters. During the summer period, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform announced the creation of a house price register database. Has legislation been drafted in this area and when is it expected to be before the House?

On the day we broke up for the summer recess, a report was published by a working group investigating mortgage arrears. The report contained a series of recommendations many of them legislative to deal with the issue that is affecting a minimum of 35,000 households at present. Will the matter be debated in the House? Given that the report was published several months ago on the day the House went into recess, can we now get an opportunity to debate the report and its recommendations? Will there be legislation——

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