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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The bank's responsibility is to act on behalf of its shareholder; therefore, it has a responsibility to act on behalf of the Government if it directs it to ease the burden on the figure of 100,000 mortgage holders.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a matter of fact that the board would have to act on the directions of the Government, as shareholder.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: It owns 99% of the bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. There is also a view in society generally that the Government wants to offload AIB in the future and that there is a desire to fatten it in terms of the level of profitability, capitalisation and its attractiveness to the market. Is that part of the thinking behind the current policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the attractiveness of the bank to a potential seller in the future in any way part of the thinking on how this policy is being delivered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is AIB required to deleverage at any level? A number of years ago it was required to do so. Has all of that happened, or is there more to happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: What percentage of business loans have been written down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a major crisis in the SME sector. Many have been tied to toxic loans. The functioning parts of businesses are being dragged down and jobs are being threatened as a result. What efforts are being made by the bank to try to resolve that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a lot of debate about the dysfunction within the property market. Property prices are increasing rapidly, while rent costs are spiralling. Part of the problem is on the supply side. The view is that the banks are not lending to builders or are lending at a percentage which makes things impossible. Do the delegates have any insight into that element of the market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Are there figures for volume and stock levels in lending to the building sector?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Trade (21 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: 554. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form Ireland's import and export figures relating to trade with Egypt for the years 2007 to 2014. [15585/15]

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: People looking in on this debate will have listened to the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin's rosy picture of how the economy is functioning at the moment. The reality is that these people will be well aware of the continuing unemployment crisis. They will be aware that people who are unemployed and over 65 are not even counted as unemployed, and that the tens of...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Agreed.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Neither of those points is contradictory.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Only in part.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: They are banned in the North.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the OECD wrong?

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: Is the OECD wrong?

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: He quoted figures from 2007.

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2015)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government has one year left and the Minister may not get another chance to fix this. If I were in his position and I had possibly 12 months left in an Administration and possibly without another opportunity to make real significant change, I would ensure that my work output was not deficient, watered down policies.