Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government should allow this Bill to be teased out in much greater detail on Committee and Report Stages. There is a fundamental flaw in the insolvency service as it is constituted. We have to accept that it is not working. The overarching State response to the mortgage crisis was the establishment of an independent statutory insolvency service. That service is not functioning because both of its hands are tied behind its back.

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