Money Advice and Budgeting Service Bill 2002
Public bill · Government · Presented
The measure would put the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) on a legal footing, providing free, confidential and independent help to people struggling with debt or at risk of over-borrowing. It would allow local community-based organisations to deliver the service under agreements with the Minister, with public funding, monitoring, audited accounts and cooperation with credit unions and public bodies. A national advisory committee would help shape policy and promote equal access across the State.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the development and implementation of a debt management service to assist individuals in managing, reducing and discharging consumer debt; to facilitate co-operation between persons and the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs for the purpose of establishing companies to provide the service; to provide for those companies to enter into agreements with the Minister to provide the service as local service providers; to provide for the principal objects of local service providers; to confer on the Minister functions in respect of the funding, monitoring and evaluation of the service; to establish a National Money Advice and Budgeting Service Advisory Committee to consult with and advise the Minister on matters of policy relating to the service, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 22 August 2018
- Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs Primary
- First StageDáil Lapsed