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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume there are quite a few such cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not mean to rush Mr. O'Sullivan. I understand he is trying to answer my question but I have a limited time to ask questions. Let us look at the scenario in which a family has filled out all of the financial statements and given up their home, which is a pretty big sacrifice. The bank knows that their income is very low and that they do not have anything to spare; they are in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have heard that answer and I will follow up on the individual case. I would hope that such a reasonable approach is being pursued.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to shift tack slightly now. The term "moral hazard" was deployed by both the Government and the banks when the mortgage crisis was at fever pitch a few years ago. At that time, some of us were saying that there should be an across the board write-down to market values and so on, but moral hazard was the argument deployed to counter that. Is the same principle applied when it comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough. I should have known that. Mr. Masding cannot really comment on that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine. We will be dealing with that matter later. I wish to turn now to the cost of funding. The witnesses said that most of the funding for Permanent TSB comes from deposits, if I understood correctly. They said that 60% of its funding is from deposits and they cited that as one of the reasons for their difficulty in reducing the variable interest rate. Obviously, the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the average interest rate for deposits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The bank's average interest rate on variable mortgages is 4.36%. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rate for a variable interest rate mortgage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is quite a big gap there in the context of the cost of mortgage interest-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. I do not have time to drill into that further, but it still seems to me to be a significant gap. One could be forgiven for thinking there is a profiteering element to it, but we will look into that further at some future date. I wish to go back to the issue of arrears, if I may. Quite a high proportion of arrears solutions in banks have been in the area of arrears...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is no problem.

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have reflected over the past few weeks on what I have learned as a new Deputy who came to Dáil Éireann four years ago as we approach a possible general election. What I have learned is that the defining characteristic of establishment politics, in so far as they dominate the main political parties in the State and the political machinery of Dáil Éireann, are the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Security and Defence Policy (19 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland supported the European Union request to the United Nations to sanction military action against migrant boats crossing from Libya to Europe; the discussions that preceded this request; the persons who participated in these discussions; and the role Ireland had; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19324/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (19 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Irish Government's position in relation to the ongoing wars in Libya, and elsewhere in the Middle East, in the context of the growing refugee crisis; his views that these wars are contributing to the refugee crisis, and if so, the demands the Irish Government has made, at European Union level, in relation to this; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 294. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19210/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health last met. [7797/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has fundamentally betrayed his promises to the electorate in the area of health insurance. One of the central planks of his party's pre-election manifesto was the great promise of universal health insurance. He says he is still committed to that, but it is absolutely clear that it has been put so far back as to be a really meaningless objective now. Is it not the case that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my question, I asked whether the Taoiseach is concerned given that there were lots of reports in the case of Portlaoise from frontline staff about the situation. We have a similar case with the psychiatric nurse suspended on foot of going to the media about the situation in Cork. My question is more general as to whether the Taoiseach is responsive and whether it is the policy of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (26 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will finish reviewing the recommendations of a major independent review of Garda misconduct complaints; if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be given consideration, in view of the amount of evidence in this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19531/15]