Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

We are talking about the current housing crisis that is affecting so many people across the country but I am still working with a large number of individuals who are hammered due to the last housing crash. Believe it or not, these individuals are still before the courts trying to unwind the complex legal mess that exists with regard to the housing crash in 2009. The banks are still pursuing these families and many of these individuals are broken people. These people have been suffering for 14 or 15 years. Some have suffered from depression while many have attempted suicide to relieve themselves from a crisis in which they still find themselves. Many people are financially busted and are defending themselves in court against some of the biggest legal firms in Dublin. They are finding it increasingly difficult. One of the allegations that is being made is that the Land Registry is transferring land out of individuals' names and into the names of other people at the request of banks' solicitors - not at the request of judges, etc. Surely the Land Registry should operate only on the basis of a judgment and not on the say of a private firm representing a bank. At this stage, it should be the responsibility of the State to look at those individuals who are still in this sorry mess 14 years later and see what can be done to fix their situations so that they do not have to go through another ten to 15 years of this disaster with the banks.

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