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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeline for Covid-19 booster jabs for each age group has been approved; and if so, the timeline for booster jabs. [59158/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for cancer patients to qualify for a medical card; and if there are plans to amend the criteria to expand eligibility for cancer patients. [59159/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which dentists are blanket refusing to see medical card patients; and the efforts his Department is undertaking to solve this problem. [59162/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times that pre-legislative scrutiny has been waived in relation to Covid-19 related legislation; the legislation for which this waiver was requested; and the reason for each requested waiver for pre-legislative scrutiny [59172/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available for rewilding and wilding of land; and the current level of take-up for these supports in tabular form. [59177/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he has undertaken to reinstate the European Commission derogation for Ireland in relation to weigh fish once they have been transported to the factory. [59178/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of fish caught in Irish waters from 2016 to 2021 by species of fish and by the nationality of fishing trawlers in tabular form. [59179/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of cross-Border agriculture trade in 2020 and 2021; and the measures being considered to boost cross-Border agricultural trade both to and from the North of Ireland. [59180/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat Mr. Blažek agus mile buíochas as an gcur i láthair. It has been an interesting discussion. I would like to zero in on the Irish banking market. As Mr. Blažek knows, the Irish banking market is in crisis at present. The fact that Ulster Bank and KBC are leaving means there is more concentration happening within the pillar banks. More...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Department of Finance has never sat down and asked why KBC is leaving Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The phrase, "we have communicated" is very broad. I am looking to nail down some specifics here. KBC has communicated with officials in the Department of Finance as to the exact reasons the Irish market is no longer attractive to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: KBC is in quite an interesting position. While Ireland is suffering from a banking crisis at present, KBC is in a good place to give detailed analysis as to why we are having a banking crisis. Elements of the Irish market are so unsatisfactory that it does not make sense to KBC to function here. I would like to dig down into that if I can. Mr. Blažek mentioned competition, which was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am coming from the perspective that the market is shrinking significantly in the State. We have higher interest rates than other European countries. Banks are closing in regional towns. There are obviously online elements and the market is shifting to a certain extent but there is enormous supplier power. Anyone who studies economics will say that if there are two or three really large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I apologise for interrupting. In Ireland, the system after the last banking crash was built as a two-pillar banking system. In many ways, creating those two pillars to be so dominant in the market has led to a difficulty in competition for the smaller banks and new entrants to the market will have the same difficulties as KBC has had. Is that not right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can I ask Mr. Blažek then-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The size of the market and the capital requirements are two aspects of the Irish market that are different to the other markets that KBC is successfully functioning in. Is there anything else different about the Irish market that adds to KBC's decision to withdraw from the Irish market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that and unfortunately regulation itself can be pro-cyclical. I am a big fan of regulation. Ireland was shockingly deregulated before the last crash, which significantly contributed to that crash. Sometimes there is a regulation lag and it can come too late and therefore have a pro-cyclical effect, which further depresses the market. I understand KBC’s need to speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Would Mr. D’Arcy be able to quantify the level of forbearance in proportion to the business loan element that was necessary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Non-performing loans are being sold and they are not being sold to Bank of Ireland but elsewhere. Is that correct?