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Oireachtas committee echoes FLAC's call to take debts out of the courts
Issued 16 February 2010 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
Legal rights organisation FLAC today welcomed a report from an Oireachtas committee that calls for urgent new measures to tackle overindebtedness. The report from the Joint … -
Welcome focus by Minister Ryan on individual debt
Issued 30 January 2010 |debt-law-reform|
The non-governmental organisation FLAC today welcomed the announcement by Minister Eamon Ryan that the government will soon establish soon an expert panel to advise it in …
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Mortgage arrears figures show alarming rise
Issued 22 December 2009 |debt-law-reform|
Legal rights organisation FLAC today warned that figures from the Financial Regulator on mortgage arrears to the end of September 2009 display a worrying upward trend in …
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Budget response to overindebtedness crisis is entirely inadequate
Issued 9 December 2009 |access-to-justice|debt-law-reform|social-welfare-law-reform|
FLAC Budget Statement 2010 Independent legal rights group FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) has as its main aim to achieve equal access to justice. As part of this overarching …
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Lecturer warns that debt is the over-riding social problem
Issued 2 December 2009 |debt-law-reform|
At a lecture on access to justice organised by the independent legal rights group, FLAC, the former independent Senator and Northern Ireland's former Ombudsman Dr Maurice … -
Consumer debt in Irish society: Presentation to LRC conference
Issued 19 November 2009 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
Consumer debt in Irish society Presentation to LRC conference 18 Nov 2009 by Paul Joyce, Senior Policy Researcher, FLAC Introduction In the early 1990s, when I began working …
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Government cannot miss this chance to get it right on personal debt
Issued 18 November 2009 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
Independent legal rights body FLAC welcomed the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission on 'Reforming the Law on Personal Debt' at its conference in Dublin Castle today, …
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FLAC welcomes bankers’ commitment to those facing difficulties with mortgage repayments.
Issued 10 November 2009 |debt-law-reform|
Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC), an independent legal rights organisation, has welcomed the Irish Banking Federation statement of intent, which, it says will offer …
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Major conference on debt law reform in November
Issued 21 October 2009 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
The Law Reform Commission is holding its 2009 Annual Conference on 18 November. The theme of this year's conference is 'Reforming the Law on Personal Debt' and it will be …
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Open Letter to politicians: Immediate action needed in mortgage arrears crisis
Issued 16 October 2009 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
A leading legal rights group is calling on all members of the Oireachtas to take immediate action on behalf of those who cannot meet their mortgage repayments, following a … -
Revised Programme for Government must trigger urgent overhaul of debt law
Issued 12 October 2009 |consumer-credit-law-reform|debt-law-reform|
The revised Programme for Government issued over the weekend gives hope that the government will now take seriously the urgent need for a comprehensive reform of the laws …
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Family Rights Organisations join call to remove proposed reductions to the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated lone parents from the Bill which will give effect to the O’Meara judgment; the legislation will undergo Committee Stage tomorrow
Issued 24 June 2025 |access-to-justice|human-rights-law|public-interest-law|social-welfare-law-reform|
Treoir and One Family have backed FLAC’s call for the Bereaved Partner’s Pension Bill 2025 to be amended to delete its proposals to remove the entitlement of people who … -
Proposed reductions to the social welfare entitlements of divorced and separated lone parents not required by O’Meara judgment, FLAC tells Oireachtas Committee
Issued 18 June 2025 |access-to-justice|human-rights-law|public-interest-law|social-welfare-law-reform|
FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) appeared before the Oireachtas Social Welfare Committee this morning (18 June 2025) to outline its proposed amendments to the Social Welfare … -
FLAC calls for amendments to Bereaved Partner’s Pension Bill which will give effect to O’Meara judgment
Issued 25 March 2025 |public-interest-law|social-welfare-law-reform|
FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) has published its preliminary analysis and recommendations concerning the the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025. The 2025 …
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FLAC appears before Oireachtas Committee to discuss legislation to implement the landmark Supreme Court decision in O’Meara
Issued 2 July 2024 |access-to-justice|human-rights-law|public-interest-law|social-welfare-law-reform|
Legislation will make social welfare payments for bereaved people and their families available to cohabitants and their children. FLAC (which represented the O’Meara …