Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)

If the Ceann Comhairle bears with me I will explain. There is an auction in the Shelbourne Hotel where repossessed properties are being sold, including family homes in my constituency. We have a crisis, with one in nine private mortgages in serious trouble and four in ten local authority loans in arrears of three months or more. We have had the Keane report and 12 months of Dáil sittings. The issue is dragging on and on.

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