Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 December 2013
180. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the number of insolvency cases that have been taken under the new legislation; the average cost of court proceedings to date; the measures that have been taken to reduce the costs involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52325/13]
View answerAs I advised the Deputy in my reply of 19 November 2013, the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) is currently processing a number of applications and has stated that, in the interest of confidentiality it will not be providing details or breakdowns of numbers of applications for the various debt relief solutions received or being processed at this time. The ISI fully intends to provide quarterly statistics once a statistically meaningful number of applications have been processed.
I can advise the Deputy that no additional Court costs are incurred by debtor once he/she has paid the relevant application fee for one of the debt relief solutions. The application fees are in line with those charged in other jurisdictions.
