Latest: The Government will support the Fianna Fáil bill to regulate vulture funds.

The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will update the Cabinet today on the planned sale of thousands of non-performing mortgages.

A Fianna Fáil TD has said his party should do whatever it takes to prevent Permanent TSB selling mortgages to vulture funds.

Latest: The Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has said that legal people still have protection even if their mortgages are sold to a so-called 'vulture fund'.

The Tánaiste Simon Coveney says it is up to the Central Bank to make sure that, when loans are sold, the contractual rights of homeowners continue to apply.

A Direct Provision centre run by a company whose €1.37m in borrowings were sold by Nama to a subsidiary of a so-called vulture capital fund company has closed down after claims that management failed to meet health and safety standards.