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Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Everybody has been saying for a week that this is the most urgent issue facing us-----

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: -----and the Taoiseach cannot tell me whether even one section of the most important Act has been commenced.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: But I asked the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have it on the Order of Business.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I do not get the connection.

Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: No rest for the Labour Party. Jack O'Connor is trying to do that.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (12 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is reviewing in respect of private housing grants; the timeframe for the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12684/13]

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Over the past two years, the Taoiseach has failed to do anything effective to help people in mortgage arrears. More than 180,000 mortgages are in arrears and the people involved are finding it extremely difficult to cope. Their experiences with the banks have been anything but pleasant. The Keane report, which was published over 18 months ago, made many recommendations, including the idea...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Setting targets will not help. I gave examples yesterday of cases in Ashbourne and elsewhere in which people have had obstacle after obstacle put in front of them in respect of getting a deal with the bank.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The banks were not dealing with them. Will there will be independent oversight of the deals the banks strike with individuals? Will this oversight have teeth and ensure that the restructuring that may take place will be effective and will have real meaning for people who find themselves in arrears?

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a very straight and simple question. He refused to answer it yesterday and has refused to answer it today.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will there be independent oversight of the banks in their dealings with people in mortgage arrears?

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Keane report was published 18 months ago and its recommendations have not been followed through. A total of approximately 50 split mortgages out of 182,000 mortgages in arrears does not represent action by the Taoiseach or anyone else. The Governor of the Central Bank said he was tearing his hair out. The Deputy Governor, Ms Fiona Muldoon, said last November that the banks were not...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach talks about elections and by-elections. He should talk to those who are in mortgage arrears-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: -----who are working, who have salaries and who want to pay their mortgages. They have asked the banks to do a deal with them, but all they get in response is obstacles put in their way by the banks. There has been no action on this front. The banks were recapitalised to the tune of €9 billion to deal with the issue of mortgage impairment and mortgage difficulties, but there has...

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: They put their hands in the air and stated they could not deal with it.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Speaking recently at the Near social justice media conference, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, said that new legislation governing media ownership is a concern that the Government must be prepared to engage with. He committed to new rules on media mergers, but he did not say when they would be published. He said that in the context of a...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the media mergers legislation be a separate Bill?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: By way of legislation.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach promised the Bill at the weekend. He promised new rules.