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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: My question relates to the continuing refusal of banks to do deals with people who are in mortgage difficulties and the level of stress and pressure on relationships it is causing. Personal insolvency practitioners have drawn attention to a number of cases and I am personally aware of quite a number of cases. It seems as though the banks are simply not willing to engage, whether at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to tell the Minister a little story of a family with three children, one of whom has specials needs, that I have dealt with over a number of years. The parents found themselves in difficulty with their mortgage despite the fact that both of them are working. One of them became ill due to the stress associated with trying to deal with the bank. When I was Minister for Social...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: -----the €208 or so that the family was receiving in respect of domiciliary care allowance as income in the family's means assessment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I know the Minister does not get involved in individual cases.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I will finish on this point.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister examine some cases to see what banks are doing to people?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I understand the Minister's appreciation of the issue. He did not mention one aspect which is that with a recovery in property prices, the level of distress in many mortgages is now automatically going down as the underlying security for the mortgage increases in value. Therefore, things are certainly improving. However, if we examine the reports from the personal insolvency practitioners...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: -----they are indicating that it is extremely difficult to get banks to cut a deal. Further, arrangements that were reached with the banks in earlier years, where part of the loan was frozen or parked, are now coming up for review. We need to know what will happen in these cases.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: May I make a point?

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance when the results of the consultation process concerning the impact of bogus self-employment arrangements will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9983/17]

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance when the results of the consultation process concerning the impact of bogus self-employment arrangements will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9951/17]

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I wish to raise the issue of bogus self-employment. Although employment rates continue to fall and there are very significant numbers of people at work, I am particularly concerned that rather than having many people employed in traditional employment, with the protections and rights this entails regarding income, access to trade unions and access to labour protection through legislation,...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister will recall - he may have the information in his briefing papers - that when we agreed to establish this, ICTU, SIPTU and various other trade unions had identified potential losses of more than €80 million to the Exchequer per annum in taxation, PRSI and other payments. That is not an inconsiderable amount of money. Critically, people in bogus self-employment find...

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: I welcome the idea that there will be a publication at some stage and I urge the Minister to publish it, given that it is important to many people.

Other Questions: Employment Rights (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: When one speaks with, for example, young men in the construction industry, it is difficult to persuade them that working in fully ensured employment is as attractive as being established in an easily constructed self-employment wherein they pay minimal contributions but have no protection if they fall ill or have an accident. When they reach the end of their working lives, their pension...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: Of all the changes that have happened in recent decades for individuals and families, perhaps the changes to the structure of work have been the most difficult and challenging. On the one hand, we are all delighted to see people involved in entrepreneurship and building new companies and businesses but, on the other, I doubt if there is a person here who does not know of a job or job...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Regulation (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deter further increases in the cost of motor insurance; when he plans to implement such proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9985/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the incessant lobbying of representative groups for leading bankers to have pay rises and pay rise caps either raised or abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9984/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the studies the Revenue Commissioners have taken to identify possible customs posts on the Border' North and South; the locations that have been examined for these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the contact he has had with the European Commissioner for Competition, Ms Margrethe Vestager. [1817/17]