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Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Eight weeks after the Keane report was published, what do we find in the EU-IMF report? That some time next year, at the end of March, the Government will publish an insolvency Bill. It will then have to bring it through the Houses and will then have to implement it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I beg the Deputy's pardon but we did.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We published it in the last few weeks but obviously the Labour Party was not listening.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: More advice for people with financial difficulties does not solve anything because if they do not have the money to pay, all the advice in the world will not solve the problem. I ask the Government today to spell out the exact actions it will implement to help people with distressed mortgages to pay those mortgages. I ask the Tánaiste to explain how, in all the leaks we are getting, there...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There were a lot of good things in the Cooney report. One simple change would have helped a lot of people, namely, to have abolished the 30 hour rule where if a two income family becomes a one income family and that person works more than 30 hours a week, they cannot get mortgage interest supplement. We made other constructive changes to mortgage interest supplement which could have been...

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government, rather than dealing with the issue in a practical way to enable people to pay their mortgages, seems to be saying they have to hand over their houses to the banks and rent them back.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously this is hitting home with the Government.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The second solution the Government is offering is bankruptcy proceedings.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Most ordinary people just want a way to be able to pay their mortgage and hold on to their house. What is the Government going to do about that to ensure that people who are temporarily unemployed are able to resolve the issue so that they will not have to give up their house and will not have to go into bankruptcy?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Owned by somebody else.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It would appear from the leaks-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----from the Minister for Social Protection that the Government's only direction is to take the mortgage interest supplement away from those who have it. To be quite honest, its only policy is: "Mair, a chapaill, agus gheobhair féar." It has no other policy.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is all the Government is offering.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That was done by Fianna Fáil.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The A list comprises 30 Bills to be published before we return on 11 January. How many of these have been published to date? Is the Tánaiste still of the opinion that all 30 of these Bills will be published by 11 January? Can the Tánaiste confirm, as the Taoiseach promised in the House yesterday, that there will be no guillotines applied at any stage on the Water Services Bill which is...

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is the Tánaiste saying the information we were given two weeks ago has now changed and that three of the Bills have already fallen off the list to be published by 11 January?

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Government has only published one third of the Bills and more than half the time has gone.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: All the Government has done is publish one third of the Bills on the list. Now we are told that three have fallen aside. I presume between now and 11 January, more will fall off the card and that once again we will be given wrong information by the Tánaiste in the House.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask the Tánaiste to clarify the issue of the Water Services Bill.

Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about the Water Services Bill?