Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

The provision that any arrangement with creditors is sufficient to disqualify a person from employment has been well aired. I am also very conscious of contracts that would not necessarily relate to multinational companies. As far as I am aware, prison officers and members of the Garda are disqualified if they have any arrangements with their creditors.

With regard to engagement with the wider civil society, I am aware for the sake of argument in a number of legal documents relating to management companies that people are disqualified from being directors of a management company because they have similarly reached an arrangement with their creditors. That is excluding somebody from participating in civil society. I ask the Minister not just to consider contracts of employment but wider contracts that impinge on people's capacity to be full members of society after this process is complete.