118 Deputy Ciarán Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the commitment to create a new system of personal insolvency regulations allowing for a statutory non-court-based debt settlement system in view of the fact that the courts are still being used in instances of personal debt resulting in the jailing of debtors; the action he proposes to take to suspend the use of the courts and of prison sentences as a sanction in personal debt cases, pending the introduction of the promised new method of dealing with personal debt or insolvency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46484/09]

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118 Deputy Ciarán Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the commitment to create a new system of personal insolvency regulations allowing for a statutory non-court-based debt settlement system in view of the fact that the courts are still being used in instances of personal debt resulting in the jailing of debtors; the action he proposes to take to suspend the use of the courts and of prison sentences as a sanction in personal debt cases, pending the introduction of the promised new method of dealing with personal debt or insolvency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46484/09]

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