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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I second the amendment to the Order of Business that has been proposed by Senator Colm Burke. While I appreciate that Senator Ned O'Sullivan is speaking from the heart, I remind him that the project to which he refers is a welcome development in Ballina, County Mayo. To be fair to the person to whom the Senator alluded, who is a former Member of this House and a former President-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: She was much more than a President or a Senator. She was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many of the papers relate to that role rather than to her time as President. I ask the Minister, Deputy Ross, who is a former Member of this House, to come to the Seanad to discuss the state of our national roads. I read recently that, according to a report, our national roads are falling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Will this cover vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I would like to return to the issue of vulture funds or to what the Minister termed debt-investors. The introduction by the Minister of the 20% tax closed off the loophole in this area, and rightly so. However, we now find that debt investors-vulture funds are running amok in terms of the penal interest rates, charges and penalties they are applying to loans which they have acquired. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: That is not what I am told is happening on the ground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Thank you.

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Order for Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House and I welcome this legislation. We all must welcome anything that makes life easier for the citizen or for the public when accessing legislation. I congratulate and thank the people in the Departments who have gone through all 297 Acts that are obsolete. It was a very tedious job to go through all of those pieces of legislation to see that they are not...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Transport, Tourism and Sport: Statements (16 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Senator Mac Lochlainn should withdraw that remark. We have been waiting to speak but have been unable to do so.

Seanad: Transport, Tourism and Sport: Statements (16 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: The Senator is being unfair. We followed the debate on the monitors in our offices. He should withdraw his comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I ask the leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to discuss funding for third level institutions. It has been brought to my attention that some of those campuses that are attached to main colleges are in difficulty, particularly in Castlebar where the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, is going through a difficult period. This has consequences for staff...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Two heavyweights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: To follow on from Deputy Pearse Doherty, did the Department of Finance offer any view on the challenges Permanent TSB is taking to the High Court or the Supreme Court? Given that it is a State bank, I am sure the Department of Finance would have a say.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Where does the bank go from here? Is it good enough to be able to stand on its own two feet from here on in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Has the Department of Finance offered a view on where the bank may go from here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: The bank said some time ago that it was going to sell off the commercial side of its business and that it would no longer be involved in that area. However, I note that Mr. Masding said in his presentation that the bank is very interested in the small business side of the market. Is that a change of policy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I think it is important that there is competition for the other two banks, but has the bank changed its policy on the commercial sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: The portfolios that the bank sold off were all commercial real estate portfolios. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Permanent TSB (22 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: It did not sell off any mortgages or small business loans. Is that right?