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Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Confidence and supply.

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: My concerns remain. They are genuine concerns. Can the Minister of State answer the question now about whether Glenbeigh will be regulated as part of this Bill? Will it be regulated? My understanding is it will not as part of the Bill. We are leaving a loophole that will come back to bite us. The fact it will be administratively over-burdensome should not be reason to fail to address...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The high level of NPLs should not be used as an excuse. The Senator is bringing the NPLs into it. It should not be to reduce customers' rights. The Bill was sold to us as covering the owners of the credit and it is not doing that, which is what really concerns me. Credit servicing firms are already covered and this is what is confusing about the Bill. As what the Senator is describing is...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am coming to this from a very genuine position. I feel there are loopholes in it. While people somehow believe this Bill will be the salvation of the selling off of mortgages to vulture funds and all that, I do not think it will do that. It will leave gaping holes that will expose consumers and mortgage holders in the same way as they have been heretofore.

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I regret there is no Report Stage to tease this out properly because it warrants further discussion. Securitisation is a loan sale through the back door. It has the same impact on the consumer as a loan sale. I have a feeling we will be discussing this in another forum but, as there is no Report Stage, I will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Finance (African Development (Bank and Fund) and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Sinn Féin supports the Bill. It is right that Ireland should play a part in supporting development in Africa. A different model is needed than that of the old foreign development aid, which tended to extract as much from African countries as it gave. I note that most of the money given out by the African Development Bank is for key infrastructure such as roads, water supplies and...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister. I certainly welcome the Bill. It is long overdue. As the Minister stated, the Bill will enable Ireland to ratify the Istanbul Convention which was signed on 5 November 2015. I understand that much of what enables us to ratify the convention has been included in the Domestic Violence Act 2018. That was one of the greatest achievements of this House since I entered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Beef Sector: Discussion with Irish Farmers Association (18 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, and I thank the IFA for this report. It is important, particularly in the climate that we are in with Brexit and so on. My interest stems from the extent to which it impacts on the west of Ireland, with 80% of the cows there being suckler cows. I am deeply concerned about the pressures being put on the suckler cow herd and the impact they will have on the wider...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the House to discuss this matter. Áras Attracta is a residential respite day service for adults with intellectual disabilities in Mayo. The HSE directly manages Áras Attracta, which, as the Minister of State knows, works in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations to deliver intellectual disability services to the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The crux of the matter is that the geography of Mayo means that it is not acceptable to expect people to travel from one end of the county to the other to access day services. Furthermore, we do not know anything about the service provider, Praxis. Is this a privatising of the services? Will Praxis be based in Ballina? Will someone from...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I only wish to ensure that no one will be left behind.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I can hardly believe that I am standing here to say this today. It relates to the junior bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank who were given the full value of their bonds from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, to the value of €270 million. Those are the banks that we have already paid €35 billion, between Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide. People right across the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: He is very trying.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We will support that amendment to the-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, I am supporting the amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Progressive Democrats, thanks be to God-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Thanks be to God the Progressive Democrats have gone to Progressive Democrat heaven. We wish them well for Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I was very pleased to learn that Fine Gael had its joint Christmas party with its confidence and supply partners. I hope they enjoyed it. That is the one advantage-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are very noisy and giddy today.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Looking back, I think 2018 will be regarded as the year of the four Bs - bankers, bondholders-----