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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has Permanent TSB lost many customers because of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: When it comes to welcoming competition into the market, what is worrying us is the fact that this increase is to bring Permanent TSB in line with other banks. That takes the competitive element out of it, which is what causes me the most concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will leave it at that, a Chathaoirligh, as I know others want to ask questions and our time is limited.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: On behalf of the Sinn Féin team in the Seanad, I wish to express our sincere sympathies to the families of those who were killed and injured in the Las Vegas atrocity. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this painful time, as indeed they are with those who lost their lives in the incident in Marseilles at the weekend. I wish to move the National Asset Management Agency...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 12 on the Order Paper, the National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017 - First Stage, be taken before No. 1. Yesterday, my party launched an alternative budget - and I look forward to the alternative budgets that will be produced by those who call themselves the opposition in this House - although looking at the news on RTE...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We provide for an increase of €450 in tax credits for the self-employed and for farmers. Senator Norris will be delighted with this.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am extremely disappointed we are the only party that has put forward a fully costed budget, which shows there is an alternative to what is being done at the moment economically. I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this and I look forward to the debate with the Minister. Students have returned to college and householders are finding it extremely difficult to send their children...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 and the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 to empower NAMA and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to contribute to the stability of the housing system through the provision of social and affordable housing.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Senator Freeman for bringing this vital issue to the attention of the House. Along with my Sinn Féin colleagues, I was delighted to add my name to the list of those supporting this motion. I am aware that during the last term, Senator Freeman worked extensively with my colleague, Senator Devine, on the Seanad Public Consultation Committee, particularly on the issue of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: On the final matter to which Deputy Pearse Doherty referred, the language in that new contract does not form the basis of a trusted relationship and one that a bank should have with its customers. I have many concerns about that. It hardly forms the basis of a contract at all being so open and providing so much protection. It is certainly not an equal relationship in terms of getting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The language used shows the relationship between the banks and consumers and that between the banks and the State. Although the tracker mortgage issue has been covered comprehensively by my colleagues, I have one question. Has the bank identified who is responsible within the bank for moving people off these trackers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand what happened but I am trying to get to the bottom of the broader question of accountability. Was there a section in the bank which made these decisions and which said that this was the right thing to do, or which brought the matter to the board? If so, in that process were there any dissenting voices that said this is wrong let us have another look at it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand what Mr. Mallon is saying but we need to get to the crux of the matter. When they came before us, the representatives from the Central Bank indicated that there were concerns around the illegality of this and that it was going to investigate. Has the Central Bank contacted Ulster Bank about that? It was going to make referrals to the Garda at that time. Has the Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Was there any dissenting voice? Are there any records within the bank of any individual or group of individuals saying this is the wrong thing to do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: As chief executive officer, CEO, Mr. Mallon would know. When he says to the best of his knowledge he would know because one of the first things that would happen in any investigation is what is at the root of this and who was responsible. Surely Mr. Mallon could, perhaps, either not promote people who made these decisions or even demote those who were dissenting voices. That would need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I appreciate that but the answers to some of these questions are wholly unsatisfactory. Customers are at the centre of this. I know a customer who has been waiting nine months. When we heard from the bank last year, I reassured him that he would know by Christmas where he stood and what was happening. He still does not know today what is happening. What can the bank say to that customer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is really getting tiresome at this stage for these people to be hanging on and not knowing what is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: There were great expectations about the witnesses perhaps presenting more definite answers this morning on what is going to happen. Telling them that it will be well into 2018 before they will have any information is not the way to treat customers. I have a couple of questions about the vulture funds. I was in the repossession courts in Castlebar in recent weeks where there were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to try to quantify this. Ulster Bank had the 900 people, and at the time that was published. Are there other family homes which Ulster Bank has sold since then? What is the total number?