Finance Minister Michael Noonan was strongly opposed to changes designed to help struggling mortgage holders just months before they were approved.
Changes to the personal insolvency legislation which removed banks ability to veto repayment solutions involving a persons home were announced last May.
Less than three months earlier, however, Mr Noonan warned of the unintended consequences of adjusting existing legislation, adding that it would undo much of the progress made over the past number of years and risk having significant negative consequences for the economy as a whole.
In correspondence from Mr Noonan to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald in February 2015, seen by the Irish Examiner, the finance minister expressed concerns tha…
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