Second Stage Defeated 33rd Dáil 46/2022
Impaired Farm Credit Bill 2022
- Sponsor
- Michael Healy-Rae
- Introduced
- 26 Apr 2022
- Last updated
- 20 Feb 2025
Plain-English summary AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Splits farm properties into farmhouse and farmlands. Farmhouse debt follows residential protection rules; farmlands debt follows farm-specific rules.
- Pauses creditor sales of farmlands while farmers prepare debt settlement proposals, modelled on company examinership and personal insolvency frameworks.
- Allows courts to impose revised loan terms on creditors if fair to all creditor classes; permits overindebted land return to State for food security and climate goals.
Stage timeline
- First Stage 33rd Dáil26 Apr 2022
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil26 Apr 2022