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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Following on from Senator Crown's words, I am concerned as the plot thickens around the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission review. Only one question now counts - has the public confidence in this review? It does not. To achieve confidence, it is becoming clear that on this issue alone, the Minister, Deputy Shatter, must step aside. He is a fine Minister with an incredible work...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The legal protection for whistleblowers must continue. Given everything that has emerged, we do not know for sure whether that protection ever existed. I look forward to the Deputy Leader's response.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will it be debated in the House?

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That makes sense.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, to come to the House for a broad-ranging debate on mortgage and debt solutions. Last night I hosted a public meeting in Oranmore. There was a public element, as well as private one-to-one consultations with personal insolvency practitioners. Mr. David Hall, whom we all know, was present and approximately 90 people attended. It...

Seanad: Community Courts: Motion (25 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to support this proposal, which is sound educationally and socially. Its intention is positive and it could have a profound impact on society. I am supporting this for a few reasons. First, young people can be vulnerable and if they get on the wrong side of the law early, it can start a dangerous pattern. I am encouraged by the model of a community because it may not turn...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We have learnt that there will be a voluntary sign-up to the CCMA by the foreign bidders for the Irish Nationwide Building Society loan book, which is progress, but to have this on a voluntary basis is not adequate. It must be mandatory. The second highest right in the Constitution is to property. That is how high that right is. There must be mandatory protection for homeowners. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It needs to be put on the record at this time as well. This is apt.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I certainly will. I agree with Senator Colm Burke. I met the GPs this morning. The contract for free GP care for those under six is flawed and unworkable. All of the GPs I met this morning are not signing up to it. Is that what we want? It could take six weeks or two months for one's child under six to be seen because there will be a clustering of GPs in certain locations who may sign up...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Come on. Enforce it on the North too.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State. I have just spent the past two and half hours discussing the sale of the Irish Nationwide loan book via the IBRC at the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. We are talking about 13,000 mortgages. We need to step back from the issue and say, as the Minister of State and I know, that property rights are deeply...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am delighted to hear that work on draft legislation is under way. I was really concerned when the Minister of State said that if foreign bidders or non-regulated entities rowed back from the voluntary code the Minister would act quickly. In another conversation I would say "Why wait until then?" because that is very poor practice. Suppose we had another Government or another Minister...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am just asking the Minister of State to answer those questions.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Mr. Wallace and the other delegates. It is nice to be here and to have stuck with it so far. As Mr. Wallace knows, property rights are deeply ingrained in the Irish people's consciousness. Some 100 years ago we were subject to absentee landlords and it now looks like we are back in that space again. If Mr. Wallace's home loan was being thrown to the wolves without there being any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Would Mr. Wallace like to have the opportunity to buy it back? Will he answer "Yes" or "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: If Mr. Wallace could bid for it at the same discount rate being offered to a foreign bidder and make some money for his family, would he like to have that opportunity? Will he answer "Yes" or "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the answer "Yes" or "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: My next question is for Ms Nolan. The Master of High Court, Mr. Honohan, said we had to look at the reality that many mortgages would be sold in the secondary mortgage market and that we needed to regulate same. Ms Nolan has said the Department is looking at legislation. Given all of the concerns shared at the committee today, does she think it is time for emergency legislation to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: For the person who is not in arrears, there is no protection because the CCMA does not apply to him or her.