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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Slowly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Will it happen more quickly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: There is a problem there now. The lender has or seems to have the right to reject what the borrower puts forward. From experience, and my colleagues here around the House have had similar difficulties, if the lender says that is not sustainable, that it cannot do that and that it is not the bank's policy to do that, all of which we have heard previously, that is where the officials in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I agree that is the way it is supposed to work but, unfortunately, it does not always work that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is the unworkables that I want to target in this particular area. We have all dealt with them, right from the beginning ten years ago. The problem is as great today in some cases as it was ten years ago because, as Ms Rowland must bear in mind, countless proposals were made to the lending institutions at the beginning made up of warehousing parts of the mortgage and the longest possible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: They cannot, because they are on a fixed income. We need to deal with that somehow. I will finish off on the question of moral hazard or whatever they call it nowadays whereby an individual write-down was not available. I and members here have dealt with cases where payments have been made every month for the past 15 or 20 years but, because of the banking crash, they were not able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Why not all of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I said I was not going to intervene anymore. I just want to finish with a last sentence. I finished my mortgage and concluded it successfully in the past couple of years. I paid 19% and 20%. If you missed a payment, you paid a 23% or 24% penalty, so you never got out of that if you missed two or three instalments. However, I borrowed on the basis of the value of the property at the time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our visitors for the useful information they have given us and assure them of a steady stream of communications from the Members of the Houses who have been dealing with these situations with a lot of frustration for a long number of years. It should be remembered we have had situations in which financial houses have appeared on the doorsteps of widows when they came home from work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I do not know whether or not it was, but there are a lot of other pubs around the place. The cash flow is the issue. I am surprised that the regulatory institutions have not zoomed in on them to the same extent. All our salaries are paid by the State and accounted for - they have to be accounted for - and the Revenue Commissioners have been very quick to tell us when suddenly we get money...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming here and giving their expert opinion. To what extent should there be a link with the retention of reserves for future emergencies? Given that our total national debt is €225 billion or thereabouts, should there be a link and policies put in place? Are we putting in place policies? I think that we are. Should we put in place policies that make a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Do we need to continually closely monitor our borrowing capacity as opposed to borrowing? I am mindful of the things that have happened in the past when we arrived at a situation where we had no borrowing capacity and nobody would lend to us because we had no credit. I do not blame anybody for that but it happened and very suddenly. To what degree does Dr. McDonnell think that could happen...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Today I have to defer from my usual question, but I will be back to it again soon, in favour of the issue that arose in my constituency in the last week whereby at the State-owned Castletown House, access was intended to be denied by an adjoining new landowner, resulting in the prevention of access to the State-owned house and 200 acres or thereabouts. It was deemed that the State could not...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: One speaker, please. Everybody has their turn.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The next slot is the Social Democrats. I am sure the Minister will not interrupt.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Sinn Féin is next with Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, O'Rourke, Cronin and Ó Murchú. There are a couple of spare minutes in that slot.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss ongoing school bus cancellations in Wicklow. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - To discuss the ongoing lack of access to Clongriffin DART station from Baldoyle. Deputy Pat Buckley - To...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. The next slot is the Rural Independent Group. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue is the last man standing. He has eight minutes.

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That is what is written here. Deputies Thomas Pringle, Catherine Connolly and Joan Collins are in the next slots.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (20 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which any assistance is being offered in the case of a person (details supplied); if all possible resources can be made available, with a view to assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40705/23]