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Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Next week will be the 100th anniversary of four massacres that took place during the Civil War in County Kerry. The first was carried out by anti-treaty IRA troops at Knocknagashel on 6 March resulting in five people dead. The other three were carried out by the Free State Army at Ballyseedy, Killarney and near Cahirsiveen on 7, 8 and 12 March. In total, 17 prisoners of the Free State were...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Will the eviction ban be kept in place or will it be lifted? I have been listening to you guys all week on this, speaking on the one hand and on the other hand. The Government has said it is speaking to the Attorney General. I know how to read between the lines. It is pretty clear that the Government is leaning towards lifting the eviction ban next week or the week after. Should it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: We could see a situation by the summer whereby people will be presenting to Garda stations pleading for a place for themselves and their children to stay overnight.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: We should have no political extremism here. Keep the eviction ban in place.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The ban.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: On the ban.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: There you go.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 to ensure local authorities are obliged to reserve land for allotments and community gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10406/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I have a few questions to ask. Before I do so, I will make an observation. Two possible scenarios are playing out here. Both of them involve a bias against the majority of ordinary people and favour those with wealth in our society. In the first scenario, there is a public suspicion. Today, there is a bank opposition challenging the view that there is one rule for people who are wealthy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Solutions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: There have been 150,000 solutions and 1,900-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: It is approximately 1.3% of the total.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Okay. I am clear on that. I will not bring any particularly new information before the committee. I will pick up on points raised by Deputies Doherty and Tóibín. Deputy Doherty asked about the number of those 1,900 write-downs of 90% or more that were for people who owed €1 million or more, and Deputy Tóibín asked what the total amount of debt written down was....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: It seems reasonable to me that as the 2022 accounts are down to the wire, the finalised data for 2022 would seem not to be available. I presume that the information for the period 2015-21 would and should be available both for the number of write-downs in cases worth more than €1 million, and the total amount for those years. Mr. O'Keeffe has said, "we do not disclose that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: In which case, does it remain a commercial secret or is the information to be disclosed, or ever to be disclosed, to the public by a publicly-owned bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the clarification and he is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Yes, but I would still like to have the information and I will come back to this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: That was the first part of my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The information is out there. As AIB will be aware, I did not collate the information. What is the total write-down for the years 2015-21?