Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the numbers availing of the new personal insolvency options; the number of PIPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18165/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that there are currently 132 Personal Insolvency Practitioners and 32 Approved Intermediaries (representing 75 responsible persons) authorised by the ISI. The ISI recently published its Quarter 1 statistics for 2014. The geographic spread of insolvency applications by county, up to 31^stMarch 2014 is set out in the table below.

The ISI has advised that statistics will be updated on a quarterly basis and will be published in the Statistics section of the ISI’s website www.isi.gov.ie.