“Moneylenders are meeting a need for access to credit but often at a cost which people who are better off and who have other options would baulk at.”

SVP said that 6 weeks ahead of Christmas it is already receiving an average of 1000 calls for help to offices around the country every day.

Address criminal drug gangs, moneylenders, violence in the home, against children, sexual violence and violence against people because of their sexuality, as well as hate-talk about immigrants, exhorts Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

MABs urges purchasers to think before getting into debt while Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) advises against moneylenders.

Report fails to “examine critically" the growth and size of the moneylending industry in Ireland.

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