Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is a difficult position. The Government has been at pains to set out that we want to protect home ownership where it is at all possible. The only resort should be a last resort in respect of home repossessions. This is not the situation that applies in other countries but in this country home ownership is of particular importance to people and rightly so.

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