Companies Law Issues

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 November 2013

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Questions (394, 395)

Pearse Doherty

Question:

394. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 21 May 2013, the reason for the lack of statistics available on receivership filing and his specific statement that data received are not stored or indexed according to the receiver appointed in the Companies Registration Office; and if he will confirm that all receiverships are dealt with in the Companies Registration Office in a specific dedicated unit known as the insolvency unit. [46097/13]

Pearse Doherty

Question:

395. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason there are no available statistics and data on the performance of the insolvency unit in the Companies Registration Office. [46098/13]

Written answers

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

I propose to take Questions Nos. 394 and 395 together.

As the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies and business names, the Companies Registration Office (CRO) organises the data that it receives by company name and registered number and makes this information searchable and accessible to the public on its website via either the company name or company number. The role of the solvency unit in the CRO is to ensure that the data filed with the CRO on receiverships is registered in accordance with the Companies Acts 1963-2012. Data received by the CRO on receiverships is not stored nor indexed according to “receiver appointed” in that Office.

Documents filed by receivers are placed on the Companies Register and can be accessed by the public under the name and number of the relevant company.