Joan Burton

Because of housing, of course.

It's all about housing because the cost of housing now has basically gone through the roof.

particularly if you were going after any kind of expensive house.

And that's very, very difficult for young people.

So quite a lot of young people, they're going to go abroad anyway because they want to travel and so on.

That's fine.

But we do want most of them to come back.

And I think that's something that the government is not paying enough attention to.

And the core of that is, how am I going to get a house if I'm going to settle down and have a family?

I mean, we have all of our funding.

We've learned a lot of lessons and we have a lot of checks and balances in the system.

And that's absolutely critically important.

But it also is important that we pay attention to those checks and balances, that we don't just say now everything is fine now and the rainy day will never happen.

You just don't know in terms of world economics.

There were a lot of people in government who were just shocked because they didn't know much about finance.

Traditionally, we've had a lot of politicians in Ireland not necessarily involved in finance as a political item.

They've tended to concentrate on spending the money as opposed to how to, you know, get the money and keep it and then use it properly.

I think that's where we possibly just need to get sharper.

Do you agree with that, Joan?

You know, I do think that they need support and we probably actually need to be clearer about who can get what from a bank so that if somebody doesn't have any previous business experience, but they're going into business now, that there's somebody that they can talk to, have a good conversation with and find out what is it they would be able to get and then what is it that they can pay back.