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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one case and I will not mention names but it concerns a complaint about ATMs. A couple had €800 taken out of their account. The bank suggested that they had taken it out themselves but they were adamant that they had not done so. They had been customers of the bank for many years, both were working and were in a different part of the country at the time that the money was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To show gross negligence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What would gross negligence amount to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do some cases come down to one person's word against another, in which case there is no evidence on which the Ombudsman can adjudicate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am confused as to why a complaint like the one to which I referred would not be upheld.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Ombudsman does not uphold a complaint, what can the complainant do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an expensive business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions following from earlier comments. Is there a conflict between the legislation which informs how the ombudsman is to operate and a statutory instrument which disagrees? The ombudsman is governed by the statutory instrument in the publication of details of individual judgments. That situation is bizarre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not fully following that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that. However, I find it strange and bizarre that the legislation can allow for the ombudsman to do one thing and then the regulations put in place - presumably to implement the legislation - preclude the ombudsman from doing something that the legislation allows it to do, namely, a quite important issue of being able to report on individual rulings made by it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That appears to me to be an anomaly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to people with mortgage arrears going through the MABS process. In almost every case of mortgage difficulty that I encounter, people tell me that they are making great efforts to contact financial institutions to engage with them but they receive no response or else merely a letter written by rote. I wonder about this. The banks have come to our meetings telling us that they are...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get a chance to speak on the section as well? I missed my first amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can raise the issues at the end of the section. Is that not so?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can raise the issues at the end of the section. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can speak at the end of the section.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the amendments are mine and some are those of Deputy Pringle. Amendment No. 59 is Deputy Pringle's amendment. Should I move it now?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 60: In page 13, line 33, after “days” to insert “, if investigating alleged offences,”.