I propose to take Question Nos. 281 and 309 together.
The Government commitment under the EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland is to publish insolvency reform legislation by Quarter 1 of 2012. The legislative programme for my Department includes a Personal Insolvency Bill that will provide for a new framework for settlement and enforcement of debt and for personal insolvency. The Bill, proposals in respect of which are being developed in my Department, will take into account the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission in its Report on Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement of December 2010.
The Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, that I intend to publish shortly, will contain some interim measures in relation to reform of the law on bankruptcy.