James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

I accept that these people are in an extraordinarily difficult situation, which I have no doubt is quite traumatic for them. As the Deputy knows, this matter is now going through a legal process.

I cannot comment on individual cases but in any situation, we always have to look at what is happening, take learnings from it and see if there are ways we could strengthen our laws, be it within the Department of housing or a different Department, as the case may be, and see how we can reassure ordinary people who are not expecting to find themselves dealing with liquidation and these types of scenarios, and they are quite complicated legal scenarios. I am very much aware of what those families are going through and I cannot begin to imagine the stress they are all going through.

As I said, I have to be careful about not commenting too much on a particular situation going through a legal process, but we do have to look at those situations and ensure we take learnings from them.

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