Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The issue of a person against whom an attachment order has been made changing jobs is a fair point. A person with an attachment of earnings order could dispute it and genuinely believe they are right but the system might genuinely believe they are wrong. We have all been in a position in which we did not want to pay something because we had an issue with it, even though we could have been wrong. That does not mean the person are not capable of doing his or her job to a very high standard. I do not know how that can be dealt with, but it is a fair point. Perhaps under employment legislation it might be deemed illegal to ask a person at interview if he or she has an attachment of earnings order or to expect a person to declare that he or she is the subject of such an order. It should be just a formality, like paying tax. It certainly should not stand against people in changing jobs, improving their skills or applying for positions that may put them in a better position to pay their fines, bills and so on.