Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I listened to LMFM this morning and heard the spokesperson on finance making the comment that the reason the Minister for Finance was introducing initiatives today to deal with mortgage arrears was the by-election in County Meath. Has the Ceann Comhairle ever heard anything as strange as that? I noticed that the leader of Fianna Fáil drew that by-election into his comments here. The first thing I will remind him of is that the previous Government refused to hold by-elections because it was always afraid of the people. It had to change the law to ensure that by-elections would take place within six months.

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