Leo Varadkar advice on mortgages ‘a sick joke’

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.

Edmund Honohan has written a bill to give greater protections to families who are faced with losing their homes.

It would set up a cooperative system to allow for the purchase of distressed mortgages which could then be rented back to the mortgage holders.