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

These amendments relate to the verification of matters with which an appropriate court must be satisfied before it can approve a debt settlement arrangement or a personal insolvency arrangement.

Amendments Nos. 17 to 20, inclusive, are mainly technical. They propose to improve on the existing construction of sections 71, 75, 76 and 78 of the 2012 Act to make clearer how a court is to satisfy itself that the conditions prescribed in section 78(2) have been met in an application to the court for approval of a debt settlement arrangement. Amendments Nos. 21 to 24, inclusive, are similar. The purpose of these is to improve on the existing construction of sections 107, 112, 113 and 115 of the 2012 Act to make clearer how a court is to satisfy itself that the conditions set out in section 115(2) have been met in an application to the court for approval of a personal insolvency arrangement.