Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Senator Ó Clochartaigh's amendment may unwittingly exclude a group of people who may seek relief. I have in mind, for the sake of argument, people who have gone to places such as Australia and Canada and who are distressed borrowers who may avail of these types of debt settlement arrangements. These may be cases involving reasonably small sums of money by comparison with some of the levels of debt that other people have. By inserting "and ordinarily resident" we would be excluding these people from the provisions.