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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: EU Fuel Quality Directive: Discussion with Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: At what levels are they taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: EU Fuel Quality Directive: Discussion with Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Do members of the delegation have anything further to add?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: EU Fuel Quality Directive: Discussion with Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association (9 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the delegation for coming before the committee. We are not geophysicists or chemists but we need, at a global level, to start measuring the full carbon footprint of all production processes. If I buy a plug from China, Canada or Ireland, I need to know its full environmental impact. In terms of the sand oil issue at a European level, if the delegation can make their claim regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences Renewals (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will resolve the anomaly in the procedures for renewing a taxi licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43654/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We will now deal with No. 6 on the agenda, Quinn Insurance and the State's insurance compensation fund, the ICF. I welcome Mr. Michael McAteer, joint administrator, Mr. Aidan Cassells, chief executive officer, Quinn Insurance Limited, QIL, Mr. Patrick Dillon, advisory services partner to Grant Thornton, and Mr. Aidan Sherry, QIL. From the Department of Finance we have Mr. Aidan Carrigan,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Members have been given the full statement and they may question Mr. McAteer on the other points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. McAteer. I ask Mr. Aidan Carrigan to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the witnesses to respond to those questions first and Deputy Timmins can ask further questions then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy should allow our guests to answer. I will allow him to come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Quinn Insurance and Insurance Compensation Fund: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I call on the Deputy to be more measured in his language as some of these matters are actually before the court. While people may agree with the sentiments of the Deputy, I ask him to be more prudent in his choice of language.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (11 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that the supplementary register for future elections is made available to all concerned parties in a timely fashion and in a standard format by all local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43850/12]

Topical Issue Debate: National Asset Management Agency (16 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter this evening. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for coming to the Chamber personally to respond. I could commend the Minister of State on the many actions she has taken on since she acquired this brief, but as I have only four minutes I will deal with the matter at hand, which is the...

Topical Issue Debate: National Asset Management Agency (16 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for her explicit response. Often, what we get are scripted responses to Topical Issues. It is obvious this evening that the Minister of State has given her attention to the issue I have raised. The Minister of State referred to the 80:20 scheme introduced by NAMA, which is a welcome development that allows people to purchase a home at 80% of its value and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households that have availed of the mortgage to rent scheme; the number of properties that have been considered by each participating bank; the number that have been approved by each bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45143/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: No. 6 pertains to the 2013 allocations for public expenditure, Finance Vote group. I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. I advise members that a briefing paper has been prepared as part of today's presentation. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery that all mobile phones must be switched off and if phones are not switched off, I will ask those to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it agreed to publish the Minister's opening statement? Agreed. I understand the Minister needs to be in the Seanad later this afternoon and, therefore, we need to conclude at 3.45 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose that members make a two minute opening statement, at which point I will cut them off. I will then press them to move on to questions. As the Minister said, today's focus is the review of the Votes as opposed to the broader work of the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I might make an interjection at this point. Representatives of AIB and Bank of Ireland will appear before the committee on 31 October and 1 November. I am sure all members will be asking why the banks have not become more proactive particularly in light of the forthcoming insolvency legislation, which will lay out the landscape as to how insolvency measures are being dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but they will be back next week. That is the elephant in the room. Given that the legislation is coming down the tracks, why are the banks engaging in an ongoing issue of forbearance, particularly forbearance in circumstances where it is not doing the householder any good? We should put those questions to the representatives of the banks when they appear before the committee. As the...