Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, in his brief visit to the House. Like other colleagues, I welcome the swift passing of this legislation. As the Minister of State and other colleagues have already stated, this legislation is long overdue and should have been completed many decades ago. The attitude to bankruptcy in this country is slowly changing and if somebody falls on hard times and must go down the road of bankruptcy, it should not prevent him or her going for election to this House, the Lower House or local authorities.