The Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan, is correct in identifying the Government’s failure to address in any coherent way the concerns of the thousands of people in mortgage arrears.

The Master of the High Court has described advice given by the Taoiseach to a person facing repossession as “a sick joke” and said the Government is “misinformed” about the situation impacting many families.

A district court judge has likened the tracker mortgage scandal to “bank robberies” and revealed that he, too, was overcharged by his bank to the tune of €17,000.