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- Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That has nothing to do with it.
- Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is ridiculous.
- Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This news will come as a shock to the staff whom the Minister has mentioned will have new negotiated rates. Is it expected that some of these rates will be higher or lower, or will the Minister have any say in the matter? Is it envisaged that there might be a saving to the State in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. This is a fine report. The level of charges is madness and I concur with the comments of Deputy O'Dea. Why is there such a difference? Both levels of charges are huge. Why is there such a difference between 30% on individual pension schemes and 15% on occupational pension schemes? Is it because occupational pension schemes are doing more of the work? What can we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is there a responsibility on the pension company to let the individual know the charges? If the customer finds out he or she is paying too much, he or she can claim it back. We have a situation with credit card schemes where insurance was taken out for a number of years unknown to the customers. What is the responsibility of the pension company?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Does it benchmark fees against what the charges should have been? How will the customer know that he or she was being charged too much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Chairman, may I ask a linked question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Murphy flagged a number of concerns that I think the Minister should act on. First, in my view the consumer code should provide information not only on the charges that are being applied but on what should have been charged. It is not good enough to tell people what they were charged; it should give information on what they should have been charged to see whether they paid too much. One...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: With respect, Mr. Morley, that is not sufficient. A person could have had a pension for 20 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: There used to be such a situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: If he or she is still in business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: But if he or she is not still in business, what does the client do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We have had a good exchange of views and there has been good feedback. What will happen in the context of the feedback we are giving Ms Murphy vis-à-vis the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: This is a fine report. We have found some areas that could be improved. Where do the witnesses go with the information we have shared with them? How will they integrate that into improved practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: So the feedback will be incorporated into this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Pension Charges: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (6 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is good.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is clear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: They have gone back and told no one.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We appreciate it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Emergency legislation was brought before the House last night but I was pleased to hear the Minister, Deputy Noonan, clarify that the drafting of the legislation was not an emergency measure; it had been in place for months. We can take solace from the fact that much thought had gone into it and that the measures around it were secure. Senator Marc MacSharry has said we have to see how all...