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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Does Mr. MacSharry think that the public who put their faith in him battling on their behalf will find that a bit strange?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It was stated, almost as an achievement, that 80% of the mortgages are performing loans. Does Ms Hayes consider a loan that is in negative equity to be a performing loan, even if the mortgage is being repaid and there are no arrears?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Most people would find that statement strange that the 80% of performing loans, includes the negative equity loans.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is the problem with statistics. Mr. MacSharry states that 80% of mortgages are performing loans. However, most ordinary members of the public who are looking to him to battle on their behalf would look at that statistic and wonder that the 80% contains mortgages in serious negative equity which can be repaid, but could hardly be described as performing. I can only imagine the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: In respect of those loans, I think there was a play on words or a misunderstanding of the phraseology when we discussed write-offs, write-downs and debt forgiveness. Most people want to know the absolute definition and how the witnesses define the difference between write-off and debt forgiveness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is that the way the system worked or is it the way the system will work as a result of the current mortgage crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Have there been write-offs in the institution in which Mr. MacSharry is a public interest director?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is not necessarily a change in policy, it is just how things are done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: So it is not a reaction to the current mortgage crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would like both witnesses to respond to questions on the overarching policy. There has been no change in policy, effectively. There has been on an individual, case-by-case basis but there is no overarching change in policy as a result of the mortgage crisis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There is no overarching policy difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The variable rate went from 5.19% to 4.5% in recent months. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: One of my constituents tells me she is being punished for the stupidity and greed of the decision makers in Permanent TSB who sold too many tracker mortgages. Do the delegates agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Given what happened during the boom and bubble years, when all of these tracker mortgages were being sold, do the delegates not agree that it amounted to stupidity and greed?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (20 Dec 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed account of the way private monetary transactions between accounts that is bank transfers, in the State are monitored by the Revenue Commissioners; if there is a cut off amount on which such transactions would require inspection by the Revenue Commissioners to guarantee that they were tax compliant; if there is, the figure of said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the expert witnesses for attending. Discussing whether suicidality should be part of the legislation is completely futile because it has to be part of it. Otherwise, the X case legislation we are bringing before the House and on which we must vote would not be in keeping with the Supreme Court judgment and the two referendums passed by the people. It would not be in keeping with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am not questioning anybody’s integrity. My point is that we have to legislate for suicide. It is not a question of whether people believe we should do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: As part of the X case judgment, which we were debating, in that eventuality-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: How does the professor feel the legislation can best be dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their excellent presentations. I am particularly interested in the draft Bill presented by Dr. Mills. In regard to section 9 which deals with termination of pregnancy in cases of lethal foetal abnormality, my concern is that legislators will be asked to differentiate between an unsustainable pregnancy and a pregnancy which will lead to the birth of a baby who may...