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- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are not doing that. That is the point. The Taoiseach's response is that the Government would like the banks to sit down with their customers but they are not doing so. That is what Fiona Muldoon, the head of banking regulation at the Central Bank, and the Secretary General of the Department of Finance clearly said yesterday. The Taoiseach wrote last year to the regulator and notes...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: As a follow-on, it is causing immense damage to and is a huge drag on the domestic economy.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is time for action and to change the orthodoxy of the Taoiseach's approach which has not worked to date. It is not I who is saying it has not worked but the Secretary General of the Department of Finance and the head of banking regulation. I ask the Taoiseach to look again at the Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 and to remove the veto he proposes to give banks in terms of resolving...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are happy with the Bill.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It gives banks a veto.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the head of banking regulation at the Central Bank, Ms Fiona Muldoon, made a very frank and honest statement in which she outlined what was not being done about the mortgage crisis. We have raised this issue on a continual basis for the past 18 months. Yesterday, it was confirmed that half of the 168,000 owner-occupier mortgage holders in arrears have no formal arrangement in...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: What would be completely unacceptable would be to repeat what happened this year. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, came into this House without notice to announce a supposed breakthrough in regard to this year's repayment. All that actually happened was that a promissory note which could be restructured with little difficulty has been converted into normal sovereign debt. It took...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about that earlier at Question Time but he did not reply to me.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The ECB would like the entire debt to be converted into normal sovereign debt but we should absolutely refuse to do this. After a year and a half of false dawns, non-existent technical papers - we have never been able to get a hold of that technical paper between the troika and the Taoiseach because it probably never existed - and distractions, it is time for the Taoiseach to actually...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Since the leaders of Europe last met they have yet again failed to show the urgency or vision required to tackle this unprecedented economic crisis. Having announced that they had made a "decisive" breakthrough, they then entered into three months of backtracking by some countries and inaction by others.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach state the number of commitments that have been followed through in legislation, particularly in respect of the overhaul of TLAC? Is it the case that the chairman and majority of members are drawn from outside the public sector? If not, when will this occur? Shall all appointments at principal officer level and above be open to external competition, and at least one...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is No. 1, regarding the public sector reform commitments. It was committed that at least one third of such appointments would be reserved for candidates from outside traditional Civil Service structures for a five-year period. Has this been honoured? If not, what is the timeframe? Can the Taoiseach indicate when legislation to introduce social impact bonds will be brought before the...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: What is the position on social impact bonds?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is a clear commitment in the programme for Government. Your lack of knowledge of the programme for Government is startling. It is a clear commitment.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: You did not know about it.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: You had no notion.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Gerrymandering in Dublin.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It looks after Labour in Dublin.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is the biggest gerrymander I have seen in a long time.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government should make the amendments and get it sorted.