Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage

3:20 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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They can but they do not. They have no history. Provident Personal Credit is not contacting the ICB to check me out. The company can do that if it wants but its interest is to provide me with a loan because its interest is profit and next week the company's agent will call to my house looking for the first instalment of the repayment. The legislation is about forcing them to check.