Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality requested the director of the insolvency service to make a presentation on a particular issue or to explain how the service is working, it would be extraordinary if he did not appear and comply with that request. Clearly it would be inappropriate for members of the committee to raise questions on one identified individual's personal circumstances. So there would be certain issues the committee would not discuss. However, matters such as the implementation of policy, the type of business plan it has, the workings of the agency in oversight of personal insolvency practitioners, its connectivity with the Courts Service, the approach taken by it to approve debt settlement resolutions and I am sure many more that do not immediately come into my head would be the subject of engagement with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality.