Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I worked in adult education for about 20 years, specifically in the area of adult literacy. A peculiar aspect of the Irish psyche is that people will talk openly on television about being an addict or having a dysfunctional life, but the level of confidentiality people have with regard to literacy problems is incredible. The type of confidentiality one must give people to get into the service is incredible, more so than with an addiction service. We were successful in providing a free and confidential service, either individually or in group form. There is also a psyche in Ireland, which may go back to the Famine, concerning people who are broke and insolvent and who may be repossessed or dispossessed. Is there a serious danger that the existence of such a register may act as a disincentive or be detrimental to people engaging with the insolvency service, which does very good work, because they do not want to be named as having used the service?