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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Plant Certification: Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (2 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Can we take it that any new application would be assessed as a matter of priority?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Yesterday, we received a great presentation from Irish Rail in Buswells. It has great plans and I compliment the CEO, Jim Meade, for the wonderful presentation. There will be an investment of approximately €2 billion in Irish Rail over the next years and it wants the Government to bring forward some of that investment, which would make sense. He informed us that all of the hybrid...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: In some cases where a mortgage is sold to a vulture fund, the vulture fund tries to get possession of the house through eviction or agreement with the original holders of the mortgage. It has been brought to my attention that in lots of cases, when a loan is sold to a vulture fund it is still the bank that brings the mortgage holder to court. I have asked representatives of the Central Bank...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: The Minister of State might consider them before it goes to the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Small and Medium Businesses: Discussion (4 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the delegations. We had lots of different groups in here, including road hauliers, insurance companies and legal professionals when we were preparing our report on insurance costs. Nobody was to blame, according to those with whom we engaged. ISME apportions a lot of blame to the Judiciary. It argues that a substantial minority of our Judiciary is excessively, unfairly and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: I support Dublin Chamber of Commerce and ISME regarding putting pressure on Dublin Port to change its decision not to allow cruise ships into Dublin Port. It sends out a bad message for the country. A total of 172 cruise ships visited Dublin Port last year and because of Brexit planning, it is intended to change that and no cruise ship will be allowed into the port. When the cruise ships...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: I move amendment No. 8:In page 4, line 31, after “land” to insert the following: "which can be of major benefit to a community, enhancement of a community, sporting projects or facilities, golf courses, sports fields, greenways, community gain or strategic infrastructural projects,". I spoke on this section on Second Stage, as did a number of Senators, and I welcomed that the...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Senator Higgins said it all when she said that perhaps we should have the definition of a community included in the Bill. We all know what communities are. We do not have to have a definition of a community in the Bill. We know what our communities are about and what they are. With regard to infrastructural projects, Ballina is a town of more than 15,000 people and Castlebar has more than...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Pearls. This has cost the taxpayer millions through holding up projects, not just a bridge over the River Moy and works on the road from Castlebar to Ballina but also in the area of the Minister of State extending from Galway to Connemara. As Senator Ó Céidigh has said, nobody will build a hotel or an airport for the sake of building it. As previous speakers said, the amendment...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: He has not been there since 1967.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: In view of what the Minister of State has said, I could withdraw the amendment. However, this amendment is to the benefit of the community. We have seen the community losing out time after time, particularly in the west and in rural areas. This amendment was designed to address much of that. If this amendment can be accommodated in a different section, I will withdraw it until Report...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: We would have voted and the Senator would have been on his own.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome Dr. Hunt, whom I congratulate and wish well in his new position. I also welcome the other witnesses. Like other members of the committee, I have received a considerable amount of correspondence about the prevailing rate. When the Central Bank decided the bank should compensate those people, how did AIB calculate what they should be paid? From all the correspondence I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Did some people do well out of it, or were they all refused a tracker on the same day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: One person might have borrowed €100,000 while another might have borrowed €200,000. Why did everybody receive the same amount?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: How many people were affected? Is it 6,000 or 4,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: Have any related cases been taken to the High Court?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: In the case of the recent sale to Cerberus, have any loans of people impacted by the tracker mortgage issue been sold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Paddy Burke: No loans of people involved in an ongoing dispute over a tracker mortgage are being sold.