Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The arrival of the Minister for Finance is timely. Given that the heads of the personal insolvency Bill have been published, will we have a comprehensive statement by Government on the strategy for dealing with mortgage arrears? The Taoiseach had said all along that the personal insolvency Bill was the reason that was not forthcoming. We have been assured that work is going on in the background since the Keane report was delivered at the end of September last, but can we now have a statement from the Minister setting out the strategy, in its totality, for dealing with the problem?

When will the legislation dealing with the European stability mechanism, to which we have signed up, the new treaty on that, be brought to the House?

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