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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: That seems very low. Yet Permanent TSB's blended cost of funds is 1.74%. AIB's is about 1.64%, yet it has come up with a net interest margin that is double that of Permanent TSB. AIB's blended cost of funds does not appear to be significantly cheaper. I am wondering why.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are those non-core elements? What is the one that is pulling back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: In the limited time remaining I want to ask about the funding model. Where does Permanent TSB's funding come from at this stage? Is it deposits? Is it ECB funding? Is it inter-bank lending? What is the make-up of Permanent TSB's funding model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Where is Mr. Lucken including deposits in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: What are they making up, percentage-wise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: What is the loan-to-deposit ratio at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the fact that Permanent TSB is still around. It is extremely important for the Irish banking market to have as many competitors as possible. Let us compare the interest rates of Permanent TSB with those in the UK. For a loan-to-value ratio of about 70%, the bank is charging about 4.25%. A similar institution in the UK is charging less than half of that, at 2.19%, even though...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: So the situation does not arise. The point I am making is that Ireland has a singular problem at the moment. We have a lack of competition in the market and we have banks that received taxpayers' money not passing on the lower cost of funds to the consumer in the form of lower rates. In that context, I would welcome Permanent TSB's observations on the Irish market. Historically, the view...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: In the limited time I have, can Dr. O'Connell share with me his observations on St. John's Hospital and the hospitals in Ennis and Nenagh, which are now mainly doing elective work? I have raised the issue of the accident and emergency service in the past. The new emergency department that is under construction in Limerick is very welcome. It appears that it will not be up and running until...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: The people who use the medical assessment unit are day patients, in the main.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will put it in simple terms. As a Deputy who represents the constituency of Limerick City, I regularly get telephone calls very late at night telling me about people, many of whom are elderly, who are on trolleys. I am acting on this purely because that is my role. I am bringing it to Dr. O'Connell's attention that the number of people who are on trolleys on an ongoing basis is a major...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will. I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Like the medical assessment unit.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, as a short-term measure.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, but-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: The members of staff do a great job. It is a question of the particular circumstances that arose coming out of the reconfiguration. I will put it this way. While Dr. O'Connell would like everything to be explored, he is not averse to the medical assessment unit being made available on a short-term-basis, subject to discussions with local management, if extreme pressures arise. He is...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: If, for example, a patient presented to the accident and emergency department in St. Vincent's hospital in Dublin after previously attending the university hospital in Limerick, what would typically happen? Would the doctor on duty pick up the phone to ask the Limerick hospital to provide the notes?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery (6 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: How long would that typically take?