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NAMA minimum income guidelines

Summary

Deputy Doherty asks whether NAMA developers will be affected by new minimum-income guidelines and contrasts their treatment with that of families in mortgage distress; the Ceann Comhairle rules the matter outside promised legislation.

Is there an intention to amend the NAMA Act, given the publication of the minimum income guidelines later today? They will cause hardship for many, particularly if, as reported-----

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Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

Is there promised legislation on this subject?

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No.

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-----families are only to survive on €20 per day.

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Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

I am sorry, but there is no promised legislation on this subject.

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Will the guidelines be applied to NAMA developers who have had millions of euro of debt written off or-----

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Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

The Deputy must submit a question or use some other means-----

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-----will they just be applied to those in mortgage distress, ordinary people who did not cause the crisis?

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