Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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On amendment No. 5, which deals with the central credit register, as I pointed out to the Minister of State, some one third of individuals actually miss their repayments under buy now, pay later financing. The Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, has done a report on this issue in the past and there have been studies across the water in relation to this. How will this affect people now with the central credit register?