Taoiseach accused of failing to tackle issue

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of passing the buck to bailed-out banks over failure to get a grip on the mortgage crisis.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin claimed the Government was not taking the situation seriously enough.

Mr Martin expressed concern that as 35,000 proposed “viable” solutions offered by banks to the end of June referred to surrender or repossession of property, the worries of families in distress were being intensified.