The Taoiseach's rejected claims from Fianna Fáil that the coalition has failed to have any impact on sorting out the mortgage arrears crisis.

Enda Kenny says he's certainly not happy with the progress from the banks but that there is a whole range of options now available to those in mortgage distress who are seeking a solution.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin claimed the coalition surrendered control to the banks and put them in the driving seat.

During rowdy Dáil scenes, the Taoiseach insisted the coalition was working to help people in mortgage distress:

The Taoiseach's meanwhile described as a "myth" claims that power in government is now centred on four men.

The Economic Management Council - made up of Enda Kenny, the Tánaiste and Ministers for Finance and Public Reform - are so far the only members of government to have discussed the budget.

They'll meet again later this evening where they are expected to sign off on the scale of the correction to be announced on October 15th.

Some Ministers have been privately briefing journalists that they are unhappy with the E.M.C. making the decisions, but Enda Kenny's responded to those deputies this morning by saying "They myth and the allegations surrounding the Economic Management Council that this is some quartet that makes all the decisions for government is nothing other than a myth and it's being used Deputy Adams by people who want to put forward the proposition that there is some sort of autocratic, dictatorial situation here."