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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe go léir as teacht isteach agus as an gcur i láthair seo a thabhairt dúinne. I would like to question the witnesses on the banking market in Ireland, which looks to be broken. What I mean by saying it looks to be broken is that there are two major players with 85% of the market at this stage. It is an oligopoly for all intents and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am approaching this subject from the perspective of the exit of Ulster Bank and KBC. We are looking at a shrinking market and a further concentration of the market into fewer hands. Situations like that never bode well for customers. Mention was made of capital requirements as a possible reason for banks to leave the market. What other reasons are there for banks to be leaving the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This committee and Committee on Budgetary Oversight passed a motion seeking the development of a banking forum in which all the stakeholders in the sector would participate to explore how we can fix some of the dysfunction in the market. Would Mr. Crowley's bank be happy to participate in that forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Over the years, I have done a lot of work for people in mortgage distress. I noticed that PTSB has sold many mortgages to investment funds, such as Pepper, for example. Is that still happening? If so, at what volumes is that occurring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Were any mortgages sold in 2020 to investment funds such as Pepper?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Turning to the general market, PTSB in March reported a loss of €166 million. I think that occurred because the bank set aside €155 million against possible loan defaults. Have we information regarding those loan defaults materialising, because that would serve to give us a picture of what is happening with small and medium-sized businesses in the economy now? Has that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We hear regularly that one of the reasons small to medium-sized Irish builders cannot build at the moment is the lack of credit. In other words, the credit structure does not suit their building model and as a result international investment funds come in and soak up that market to a certain extent. What is the witnesses' experience of that? Why is there a problem with the credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: My final question relates to questions that were already asked. Is this not a poor time to sell banking shares, given what is happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Sin sin. Míle buíochas as na freagraí.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination will next meet. [33505/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (30 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 35. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his Departmental officials have engaged or corresponded with clubs (details supplied) or communities in Northern Ireland to discuss the future of the agreed Shared Ireland, Shared Island initiative. [33225/21]

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I will address a subject broached by my colleague about businesses that have fallen through the cracks. The circus sector has been left behind. It has been thrown from Billy to Jack, told to go to the Arts Council, and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, which has sent it back to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In fairness, this is related to small businesses, which are at the heart of this crisis and the target of much of what is in this Bill, if the truth be told. There has to be a solution brought forward. That solution has to follow what the likes of Denmark and Finland did in their countries. They looked at the science, made decisions and have opened up safely for more than two months now. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided on the future of the leaving certificate grading process; and if the practice of school profiling will resume post-pandemic. [34498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider taking action to reduce class sizes in primary schools in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34499/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has met with or engaged with employers in particular with small business owners who are experiencing difficulties with staff recruitment allegedly due to the fact that persons are reluctant to come off the pandemic unemployment payment. [34501/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Jul 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no proof of unemployment was required when persons were applying for the pandemic unemployment payment; and the number of instances of fraud or attempted fraud in relation to the payment that were reported to her Department. [34500/21]