Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a responsibility and duty in this regard which I have discharged. It is by discharging this duty and responsibility that 89,000 breaks were granted to mortgage holders who needed them in the first place. Since then, we have seen almost 37,000 of those deciding they do not need the payment breaks, and that they are able to honour their loans in full.

What Deputy Doherty has just done is a typical Sinn Féin response. What he has put out here, on the floor of the Dáil, is part of the truth. Is he going to go on with this type of debate? In Germany, for example, the breaks he is referring to began in the middle of June whereas the actions we put in place happened when this pandemic arrived in Ireland. I am aware of the need that is there. I am aware of the anxiety and the stress that so many face at the moment. I and the Central Bank have been very clear that with the funding that is available to banks and what they have already done, the ability is now there to put in place arrangements that will work and will do the right thing by families and by business. If Deputy Doherty is going to compare us with what happens in other countries, will he at least do us the duty of a full comparison?

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