Laws on way to curb jailing of debtors
The Government announced its intention to bring forward legislation on the matter after an Irish Examiner report revealed at least one person was sent to jail every day for debt defaults since the State guarantee for financial institutions was announced a year ago.
Tánaiste Mary Coughlan told the Dáil yesterday that “work is ongoing” by the Department of Justice to “provide more legislative measures to ensure incarceration of people for debt will only be a last resort”.
