Personal insolvency information
Deputy Michael McGrath asks when the Courts Bill will proceed and proposes keeping personal-insolvency users’ details private through a credit register rather than online publication. The Tánaiste says the Bill is at Committee Stage in the Seanad.
The Minister for Justice and Equality has indicated his intention to table amendments to the Personal Insolvency Act in the forthcoming Courts Bill. We have raised continually the fact that the Insolvency Service will publish on the Internet the name, address and year of birth of any person who avails of an arrangement under the service. There is a better way to do that through the credit register, which would be private. When will the Courts Bill be brought forward and will the Tánaiste consider an amendment along those lines?
