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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the briefing document we have been given it is suggested the average rate for mortgage business in Ireland is 4.5% compared with 2.64% in the eurozone. Is Mr. Boucher disputing this figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise, but I was not here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It probably comes back to what I said earlier - my beef with how banking works here has more to do with the Government and its policies. Mr. Boucher made an interesting comparison between the Europe-Irish and Europe models. It bears more discussion, but, unfortunately, we do not have the time to do so. I wish to ask about two related matters. First, there is the matter of repossessions,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Boucher accept that his bank is contributing to the problem? Does he agree with me that this is happening and that banks are profiteering from it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not familiar with that component of the Nyberg report and how it was derived. It is most important that it be decided by income and that banks not be glorified pawnbrokers. Ultimately, it is a judgment call on the capacity of the customer in terms of income. The security is used to repay the bank in a case of default. It is the cashflow of the customer that is judged, whether it be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I am only going to have one minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My questions are about lending in the property, housing and construction sector. I want to get my head around what is happening in that sector at the moment. Will Mr. Boucher explain how he is making decisions about lending to property developers at the moment, what proportion is given to them of the finance they need to carry out a construction development and what criteria are being used?...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform last met and the schedule of upcoming meetings. [35198/14]

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers at the centre of this dispute are in the Visitors Gallery. To be honest, the most fruitful thing that could come out of the short time we have is for the Minister to agree to meet those workers to hear for herself the story they have relayed to us which has left them out on the picket line outside the Kishoge site for the past 11 weeks. What is going on there is an absolute...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no point in the Minister’s reading off the rulebook for public contracts when it is not working. If it was, these workers would not be out for 11 weeks and would not be in here today. The Minister mentioned self-declaration. That is an absolute joke. The basis on which Rhatigan is able to undercut other bidders for these contracts is by playing fast and loose with the...

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are doing it.

Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are blue in the face from doing it.

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The unprecedented popular rebellion seen on the streets in recent weeks was focused on the issue of water but in fact was an accumulation of all the anger and bitterness against six years of injustice and unfairness. Much of this was centred around some of the most vulnerable sections of society being absolutely savaged with brutal cuts. I refer to lone parents, people dependent on rent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12, and who acquired hepatitis C following a blood transfusion during an operation for a burst appendix carried out in St. James's Hospital on 11 November 1982, but for which the medical records for the operation have now disappeared, denying this person the documentary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 30 September 2014 if he will report on the multidisciplinary group established to progress the project to improve access to inpatient child and adolescent mental health service beds for children and adolescents in mental health services and, in particular, to ask if the aim of having 58 beds by year end is still...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report that was produced by one of her senior officials in February 2008 about a former employee (details supplied) in Dublin 6, which stated that she had been the subject of a written Garda complaint, when the gardaí have no record of this complaint; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the circumstances in which the chairman of the Public Appointments Service stepped down from that position from 31 August 2014, four months before his term expired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43055/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, a list of contracts awarded to, and amounts paid to, the owners and operators of direct provision centres from the establishment of the direct provision system to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42995/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when money will be made available for a full-time residential care placement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42734/14]