Oireachtas agenda: Motion for mortgage holders and CAP, oh CAP
Fianna Fáil want limits on how often – and how – financial institutions can contact indebted mortgage holders while CAP reform debate is sure to rile the agricultural community.
View ArticleTaoiseach denies putting homes at risk of being repossessed
The Taoiseach also faced questions about the role of public interest directors at Irish banks.
View ArticleColumn: How to navigate your personal insolvency
The Personal Insolvency Service is due to come into effect in the coming weeks, so what do you need to know about making an application? Stephen Curtis lets you know.
View ArticleColumn: There's no shame in bankruptcy – it is now a viable and positive option
This autumn will see a new personal insolvency system coming into effect that will put mortgage holders in arrears in a far stronger bargaining position with the banks, writes Ross Maguire SC.
View ArticleNick Leeson: In debt? Don't panic.
The former trader’s new book tries to help people tackles debt and find a path through the stress and complexities of dealing with financial institutions.
View ArticleThese four counties have no personal insolvency practitioners
Dublin has the highest number of PIPs, followed by Cork and Galway.
View ArticleTwo more insolvency cases heard under new regime as 7,500 contact ISI
According to the statistics section of the ISI’s website, there were almost 7,500 contacts made to to the ISI either by email or telephone up to the end of October.
View ArticleHere’s What Happened Today: Monday
Today everyone’s been talking about the first personal insolvency case being completed, a bomb in Belfast city centre and hate mail directed at Irish Muslims.
View ArticleNew bankruptcy law 'imminent' following country's first debt settlement deal
Under the new laws the period of bankruptcy will be reduced from 12 to three years.
View Article85 per cent in debt deals are families with children
In the first 20 deals, one quarter voluntarily handed the keys to their property over to the bank.
View ArticleColumn: The pain of debt is not quick – it is a ceiling that lowers inch by...
What is debt, and why do we all buy into this debt culture? Jillian Godsil discusses her own financial problems and the unsustainable status quo of modern Ireland.
View ArticleNew bankruptcy rules to be signed into law by Minister Shatter today
The new procedures reduce the term of bankruptcy in Ireland from 12 years to three.
View ArticleThousands asked for help from insolvency service in its first months
In the first three months of the ISI’s existence, it was inundated with calls and emails.
View ArticleWarnings that insolvency laws could contain "an extra layer of bank veto"
The Department of Justice briefed on the issue reports The Sunday Times.
View ArticleThe insolvency regime needs to be 'energised' because not enough people are...
A Fianna Fáíl bill to remove the bank veto in insolvency arrangements is being opposed by the coalition this evening.
View ArticleNew scheme will see 793 people walk away from bankruptcy today
A new scheme will also be offer free advice from personal insolvency practitioners.
View ArticleFactCheck: Is Fine Gael right to claim the credit for a fall in mortgages in...
Fine Gael has been on Twitter and Facebook, promoting a set of claims about its role in the fall of mortgages in arrears. Do they check out?
View Article'There is a solution for everybody': Debtors urged not to put their heads in...
Legal and financial experts say there are ways they can help – especially if people come to them at an early stage.
View ArticleCourt hopes to rule on Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe's insolvency...
Financial fund Tanager DAC, which is owed €2.26m by the couple, is opposed to the couple being allowed to enter PIAs
View ArticleHigh Court approves debt write down of millions of euro for two Tipperary women
They will continue to make payments on the mortgages on their respective homes and they will each make lump sum payments of €100.
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