Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We inherited a banking system that had collapsed and we had to address it. Figures from the Department of Finance show that, with regard to the six main banks, the number of people in arrears for more than 90 days has actually fallen very significantly, by over 15,500 accounts, by comparison with the figure for the start of 2014. This is a process that has to be worked through.

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