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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: I have one question. I may have misunderstood Mr. O'Connor when I made that contribution earlier on. He said that he expects that there would be significant write-downs in the order of hundreds of millions of euro coming from the bank in the next 12 months because he feels all the things are in place to start making significant write-downs and to start dealing properly with mortgage...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: I thank Mr. Duffy and his team for being available for the entire afternoon. They were very forthright in answering our questions, which is always appreciated by the committee. We look forward to receiving the additional information they have promised to submit. There being no other business, the meeting will now adjourn until 10 a.m. tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: The committee secretariat has received a motion from Deputy Timmy Dooley concerning the Department of Finance briefing of members of this committee on macroeconomic forecasts, as will be the case for the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, in advance of the budget. I will now call on Deputy Dooley to speak on his motion and will then call on Deputy Kevin Humphreys to respond, as the latter has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: I thank the Deputy. I might ask Deputy Kevin Humphreys to make some remarks on his motion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Very good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Is it proposed that we write to the Minister and ask for this information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Is Deputy Dooley happy to withdraw his motion if we request this information from the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: There is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Nobody is talking about withholding information from the committee. It is simply that there is a slight difference between Deputy Dooley's motion and the suggestion put forward by Deputy Humphreys.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Is that fair enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Deputy O’Donnell is not talking about begging the Minister. He is suggesting that we write to the Minister requesting the information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Deputy Dooley, you said you wanted to see cross-party consensus and wanted us to act like a committee. Deputy O’Donnell is proposing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: We have to ask where the politics are in this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Deputy O’Donnell’s suggestion is also a cross-party approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: There are witnesses waiting. If anyone else wants to comment, he or she may do so briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: We will deal with the motion first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Not at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: Yes, unfortunately.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: The problem is that we must deal with the motion; we cannot table an amendment to it now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)
Liam Twomey: An amendment would have to be notified two days in advance of the meeting.