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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Terminations in every other jurisdiction for our patients are based on the 100% destruction of the foetus whereas in the limited cases that this legislation will apply there is a completely different ethos. That should be the basis of how we discuss this legislation during the course of the night. This is the only contribution I will make on this. The ethos of the Bill is about the early...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Even though my ethos is pro-life, we need to focus ourselves a little more for the rest of the course of this debate on what we are doing. The Members are wandering all over the place in this debate. I was wondering if there were 120 general practitioners up in the Visitors Gallery, would they be able to work out what we are legislating for here tonight. We need to be far more clear on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Debt (16 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: 915. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has made representation to, or has any contact with, any UK authorities agencies in connection with Irish citizens availing of the UK insolvency regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35095/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I am sorry I was not present for the entire presentation. If I repeat anything that has been said, someone should draw it to my attention and I will check the Official Report. The Chairman was also absent. In the course of the past two years, when the banks came before the committee, they were, to say the least, very bolshy. They said they did not do debt write-downs and that they would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is Mr. O'Connor in regular contact with, say, the Department of Finance, the Central Bank and the banks? The Minister, Deputy Noonan, stated in the Dáil Chamber that he is very anxious to make sure this process works appropriately and quickly for people and that, if necessary, he will make the necessary changes to make it happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I have seen the terms of settlement the banks have made with some creditors at a local level and they have been fair and generous to some people. I would like to see that become the norm rather than people being pushed around the place, so to speak, and subject to receiving telephone calls 15 times over a weekend. It is in the interests of the banks to make sure their creditors are looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: It is the NSA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Do not contact the embassy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Policy is a legislative issue, but does Mr. O'Connor know what the justification is for giving it?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I welcome Mr. Saint-Amans. It is important that we put on record time and again that he is quite clear that Ireland is not a tax haven, and that we show that Ireland is active within the OECD. We must give credence to much of the good work done during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in moving taxation issues forward. It is also important that Mr. Saint-Amans...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: How much control does the OECD have over those, which clearly are tax havens? What can be done to stop money moving to those tax havens over time? Mr. Saint-Amans pointed out that this problem is massive in that the OECD countries have lost approximately €3,000 billion as a result of tax avoidance measures by multinationals. Will he give us some more information on how that figure...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I have one final question. Why does Mr. Saint-Amans think this issue has become such a major one now, given that many of the taxation issues and multinationals' corporation policies would not have changed dramatically in the last few years? What does he think has currently brought this matter to such prominence?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I wish to thank Mr. Saint-Amans. I have other questions for him but unfortunately I have run out of time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Are some of the OECD recommendations more suitable for larger economies than smaller ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I ask Deputy Mathews not to interrupt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I will ask Deputy Mathews to leave the meeting if he continues to interrupt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: The general perception is the banks are not very helpful to people with distressed mortgages. This reflects the frustration members are encountering and I am sure the witnesses are picking up on that frustration at this meeting. Members have heard repeatedly that everything is moving too slowly. In the conversation on this issue in recent years, people have heard about moral hazard and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: That is the point that must get out there - Mr. Duffy must get it out there and we will try to get it out there - because there is no engagement because customers simply feel that there is nothing happening. There are many excuses and they merely do not feel that there is anything happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is Mr. Duffy saying that when all of this is sorted out, if he came back to this committee in 12 months' time he would be talking about the write-downs in the hundreds of millions of euro?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: If the Chairman stays here, I will go on instead of him.