Organisation: Money Advice and Budgetary Service

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Debt-forgiveness scheme would cost €14bn - and would not work, Govt told

A blanket mortgage debt forgiveness scheme to solve the negative equity crisis would cost €14bn, government advisers have warned.

Wed, 12 Oct, 2011

Calls to debt helpline rise threefold on last year

MORE people with personal debt issues have contacted the State-provided financial and budgetary helpline in the first six months of 2009 than all of last year, it has emerged.

Wed, 29 Jul, 2009

Hanafin says job losses higher than official figures show

SOCIAL Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin has said that unemployment levels are even higher than the record rises in Central Statistics Office figures suggest.

Wed, 31 Dec, 2008