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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I would have to draw some conclusions from the statement Mr. Boucher has made that maybe some people are getting them and that he does not want this to be revealed publicly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Thomas Byrne: For all the good news to which our guests referred - including the reduction in arrears - the bottom line appears to be that approximately one third of private dwelling house owners whose mortgages are in arrears are subject to legal proceedings or to the threat thereof from the bank at present. In addition, almost half of those with buy-to-let properties who are in arrears are involved in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Mr. Boucher can blame customers all he wants but the bank has offered 3,942 so-called solutions in respect of private dwelling houses. Of these, some 3,478 are in legal proceedings. It seems that if one is a customer of Bank of Ireland, one almost has an equal chance of being in legal proceedings or obtaining a solution. What are the criteria that are applied? Is Mr. Boucher stating that...
- Seanad: Beef Industry: Motion (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I move: That Seanad Éireann--notes: - the collapse in beef prices over the past number of months; - the refusal of processors to slaughter bulls throughout the country; - the changing of carcass specifications by processors mid-way through the production cycle; - the use of labelling issues as a barrier to free trade between the Republic of Ireland and the UK; - the severe impact the...
- Seanad: Beef Industry: Motion (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I am referring to farmers who I have met or know and who are suffering because of these issues. The Minister made a rebuttal on a specific farming issue, but I am not making a point about agriculture in general. The Minister keeps citing the CSO statistics - we would like them to be verified - on 30,000 new jobs being created in the sector, but there is a major crisis and the Minister's...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Ba mhaith liomsa freisin mo chomhbhrón a chur in iúl do chlann an iar Sheanadóir, Jimmy Mulroy. Tá áthas orm go bhfuil muid go léir tagtha le chéile inniu chun cuimhneamh a dhéanamh ar an obair a rinne sé sa Seanad agus le linn a shaol. I welcome the family and pay tribute to Jimmy Mulroy both for his work in the Seanad and indeed for his entire...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Yes, on behalf of Senator Mark Daly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I am proposing it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: My proposal is that the Attorney General attend and be heard in the Seanad under Standing Order 56.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I am proposing that amendment in respect of today's business.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Dermot Ahern passed more Bills than this Minister in the equivalent period.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: That inquiry cannot be set up until we approve it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Has the Senator got the political briefing notes?
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I want to be associated with the expressions of sympathy and tributes to former Senator and Deputy, Nicky McFadden. She was a lovely person with whom I had many interactions over the years. We both served in opposition in our time here. I also wish to be associated with the tributes to the former Senator Edward Haughey. When I was a member of the Fianna Fáil cumann in Trinity College,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: However, if Deputy Shatter is not going to be appointed as the specified Minister under section 3 of the Commissions of Investigation Act, then who is? If he is not going to be appointed, why does he remain as Minister for Justice and Equality when matters current to his Department are being investigated? This is a political smokescreen, so let us not have the Seanad involved in it. I am...
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: No. It is disgraceful.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Sinn Féin accepts the rule of Her Majesty.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: I was never in favour of them.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Bhí an Seanadóir Trevor Ó Clochartaigh ag caint faoi Britain.
- Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)
Thomas Byrne: Bhí an Seanadóir Trevor Ó Clochartaigh i bhfad i bhfábhar.