Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----and people have been facing all kinds of difficulties in respect of jobs, the economy and their personal situation. For the first time since the country went into recession, individual families and households can look to a legislative basis through which they can get debt resolution and to a new legislative basis for personal insolvency which combined will give them some hope of getting out of the debt with which they are saddled . In fairness to Deputy Ó Cuív, he has welcomed the publication of the legislation.

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