Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

As I have said previously, the position is that this may well arise in a number of other locations. The Government is again having to clean up an unholy mess that has been landed on hard-working men and women who put down their money and signed their names to buy places they considered would be their homes for the rest of their lives. The unwarranted intrusion that is interfering with that is most unfortunate. We will have to deal with it by means of certificates of competency and put in place a process to ensure this never happens again. In Deputy Higgins's retort, he should be big enough to withdraw the scurrilous remark he made about the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan.

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