Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

Notwithstanding the fact that we will use our Private Members' time to deal with some of these issues, I join others in calling for a debate on the inaction in mortgage arrears. Leaving aside a cheap political stunt of reflecting on the causes of people finding themselves in mortgage arrears, the record of the House will show that nobody has a sense of ownership on this issue, and nobody has exclusivity in putting forward solutions. Nevertheless, the balance in favour of solutions being put forward would steeply be in my favour and others, when I was on the Government side of the House as much as this side.