The Government has “no pledge to keep people in 21 different homes and we must distinguish between people who can’t pay and those who won’t pay”.

As a Dublin couple with an extensive property portfolio evicted from their upmarket home continue their protest, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said the Government has “ no pledge to keep people in 21 different homes and we must distinguish between people who can’t pay and those who won’t pay”.

An elderly couple evicted from a luxury mansion in south Dublin have spent a second night in a tent outside their former home.