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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons since the start of 2021 in intensive care units with Covid-19 who were fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated by week. [61630/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons since the start of 2021 who have died as a result of Covid-19 who were fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated and unvaccinated by week. [61631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (14 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 666. To ask the Minister for Health if healthcare workers in maternity hospitals are allowed in law and practice to be conscientious objectors when it comes to the delivery of abortion services. [61743/21]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: In the first two years of abortion in Ireland, 13,243 babies had their lives ended by the State abortion services. By the end of this month, 20,000 individual living, human beings will have their lives ended by the State. That is an incredible situation on the basis of legislation passed by the Minister of State’s party, the Labour Party, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and People...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commissions of Investigation (16 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of commissions of investigation currently ongoing under the remit of his Department; the duration of each commission of investigation; the deadline for each commission of investigation; and the actual and projected cost of each commission of investigation. [54098/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (16 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of greenways currently in operation; the number of planned greenway developments up until 2030; and the amount of funding allocated to the development of existing greenways and the development of prospective greenways. [60162/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Guím beannachtaí na Nollag ar gach uile dhuine anseo. The British Supreme Court ruled this week that the PSNI was wrong not to investigate allegations of torture against the hooded men 50 years ago. These men were selected for torture during internment in the North in 1971. Separately, the survivors of the Miami Showband murders are to receive at least £1.5 million in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat Mr. Blažek agus mile buíochas as an gcur i láthair. It has been an interesting discussion. I would like to zero in on the Irish banking market. As Mr. Blažek knows, the Irish banking market is in crisis at present. The fact that Ulster Bank and KBC are leaving means there is more concentration happening within the pillar banks. More...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Department of Finance has never sat down and asked why KBC is leaving Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The phrase, "we have communicated" is very broad. I am looking to nail down some specifics here. KBC has communicated with officials in the Department of Finance as to the exact reasons the Irish market is no longer attractive to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: KBC is in quite an interesting position. While Ireland is suffering from a banking crisis at present, KBC is in a good place to give detailed analysis as to why we are having a banking crisis. Elements of the Irish market are so unsatisfactory that it does not make sense to KBC to function here. I would like to dig down into that if I can. Mr. Blažek mentioned competition, which was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am coming from the perspective that the market is shrinking significantly in the State. We have higher interest rates than other European countries. Banks are closing in regional towns. There are obviously online elements and the market is shifting to a certain extent but there is enormous supplier power. Anyone who studies economics will say that if there are two or three really large...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I apologise for interrupting. In Ireland, the system after the last banking crash was built as a two-pillar banking system. In many ways, creating those two pillars to be so dominant in the market has led to a difficulty in competition for the smaller banks and new entrants to the market will have the same difficulties as KBC has had. Is that not right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Can I ask Mr. Blažek then-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The size of the market and the capital requirements are two aspects of the Irish market that are different to the other markets that KBC is successfully functioning in. Is there anything else different about the Irish market that adds to KBC's decision to withdraw from the Irish market?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that and unfortunately regulation itself can be pro-cyclical. I am a big fan of regulation. Ireland was shockingly deregulated before the last crash, which significantly contributed to that crash. Sometimes there is a regulation lag and it can come too late and therefore have a pro-cyclical effect, which further depresses the market. I understand KBC’s need to speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Would Mr. D’Arcy be able to quantify the level of forbearance in proportion to the business loan element that was necessary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Non-performing loans are being sold and they are not being sold to Bank of Ireland but elsewhere. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: They are being sold at a discount. Is that discount commercially sensitive or are we allowed to know what it is?