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Order of Business (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: On budget day.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is fair to say the two biggest problems facing many households are unemployment and problems with mortgages and personal debt. What we have seen is a fiasco of a jobs initiative and the unemployment figures as bad as ever. On mortgage debt, nothing is happening. We left behind us-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----the Cooney report. The Government knew the situation and it took on the job. To be quite honest, those who have distressed mortgages today do not want history lessons; they want solutions from this Government.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I left behind me in the Department a set of actions the Minister for Social Protection could have implemented in the spring to help people with distressed mortgages by improving the mortgage interest supplement.

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What did they get from the Government?

Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Instead of acting on the report that was there, it parked it and set up the Keane group. That group reported and what did we get then? Another working group to look at the issue all over again.

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.