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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are all covered internally. I want to ask about credit card charges and credit card interest rates. Is that something the bank has examined in terms of the average credit card rate? Why are the reductions in lending never reflected in the credit card rate? What is the gap between the official cash rate and the credit card rate? Can Mr. McLoughlin comment on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: How much profit does the bank make on credit card customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Obviously there is another half that does and there are extortionate rates. I want to address the issue of the services that have been cut from rural Ireland. I want to very briefly outline what cash services were available as a norm before the recent changes and what services are now not available in a typical Bank of Ireland branch. I am very conscious I am short of time and have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What have you taken away that customers do not have now inside the bank that they used to have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I live in a rural community. Nobody ever consulted the people who are loyal customers not only of Bank of Ireland but other banks. In many places, because Bank of Ireland did not close down its branches when other banks did, people moved to Bank of Ireland in good faith and now they find they are going in and talking to machines. They cannot get a human being to speak to. One of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I would appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is because one cannot speak to a human being.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What I am getting from Mr. McLoughlin is that there is no way that anything will change and that the continual drive to automate everything will continue, regardless of the fact that many people in rural Ireland do not have broadband. Have the witnesses fed in concerns about people not having broadband and mobile phone connectivity to their strategies or to the Central Bank? Has the bank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am conscious of time and I want to get a picture of the bank. I appreciate what has been said but I still think that the gap between the bank and its customers is widening, particularly in rural Ireland, and I am disappointed it is on that track. How will this affect staff? Obviously, there will be many redundancies because humans will no longer be needed in many of the branches, at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: In terms of retaining staff and protecting jobs, does the bank envisage jobs losses in its banks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: There will be no compulsory redundancies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have many more questions but I will not ask them now.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I and my team want to be associated with the expressions of appreciation of the National Museum, the Office of Public Work and the work of the Ceann Comhairle in bringing us here. Of course, it does not matter what are surroundings are but it is the work we do and how it impacts on the lives of ordinary people and their families that matters. What really matters are the lives of those who...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Until such time as men can have babies, I ask that the Minister come before the House and correct this anomaly immediately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. It is some time since the Central Bank warned bankers that it had been in touch with the gardaí on the issue of tracker mortgage loans being illegally taken from customers. Have the gardaí been in touch with AIB or EBS about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Okay. Mr. Byrne would be aware if the gardaí had been in touch, would he not, because he is the CEO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will take it that the gardaí have not been in touch. Maybe we will take that up with the Central Bank when people from it are here with us in a couple of weeks. How many of the 2,900 families that AIB has compensated have appealed that through AIB's own process or by other means, including the legal system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has any of those been resolved or does Mr. Byrne have any breakdown of the results of those appeals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Are people who have lost their homes because of the situation they were put in with tracker mortgages being compensated on the basis of a new home being provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Have there been any incidents in the bank in which somebody who has lost his or her home because of the tracker mortgage situation has taken his or her own life?