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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: We only have ten minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Fáilte romhaibh go léir anseo inniu. AIB's after-tax profits in the first half of this year were approximately €500 million. I imagine after-tax profits well in excess of €1 billion are expected this year. Net lending is increasing by billions of euro and the bank's exposure to non-performing loans, at only 4%, has radically reduced. In addition, AIB does not yet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it not the case that past losses still allow the bank to write off profits currently to reduce the tax exposure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: AIB is in rude health at the moment and I imagine that is something to be proud of in Dr. Hunt's position. It is far more profitable for banks to operate online than to have a physical presence and it is an objective of the bank's shareholders for the bank to be profitable. There is no doubt that the decision to withdraw cash services from these banks was made on the basis of increasing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: AIB closed 15 branches last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: There were 15 branches closed last year. Another element to this is that Ireland is also undergoing a spatial crisis. The capital is overheating and the commuter belt is sprawling into Ulster, Connacht and Munster, with all of the focus on the capital, while regional towns and villages are emptying out. There are towns in my constituency where you could play hurling on the main street at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: My question relates to creating more competition. Would AIB support the development of local public banking? Part of this relates to getting cash circulating in these small towns. I think of Castlepollard in Westmeath where the community had to chase the bank to have an ATM fitted in the local branch to keep cash circulating. How can AIB help with the circulation of cash in towns and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: However, AIB's interest rates have been higher than those in Europe so the balance----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is also down to the lack of competition in the sector.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Road Projects (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 127. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a breakdown on the funds which have been allocated and drawn down for repairs and improvement works on rural roads and laneways under the local improvement scheme, by county or local authority, in tabular form. [44620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 144. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the streetscape enhancement initiative. [44619/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nights that there has been no doctor available in Navan North East Doctor On-Call in the past 24 months. [45340/22]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I am aware of a number of the issues that relate to this Bill, especially the case of the Dublin Business School, and I have been in contact with many of the students in that regard. The school has hugely failed the students regarding their particular qualifications. Many of these students have spent big money and many have taken time out of their own jobs and have changed careers. Many...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Ten years ago, in 2012, I had the opportunity to formulate a detailed and costed plan to deep retrofit 1.4 million houses in this State that were still, at the time, in need of deep insulation, in addition to the 130,000 non-residential buildings that were in the same state. I presented the plan to the Dáil. At the time, the costings that we worked out meant that it would cost...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 294. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the detention of a person (details supplied); if his Department has taken any steps to intervene in the situation; if he will condemn Christian persecution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 295. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the detention of a person (details supplied); if his Department has taken any steps to intervene in the situation; if he will condemn persecution of Christians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45410/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (22 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has conducted an assessment of the benefits of a rail line from Navan to Dublin. [46130/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (22 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I was one of 40,000 people who left County Meath today to go to work. No other county in the country sees a majority of its workers leave that county to go to work. It took two hours to travel from Navan to the centre of Dublin today and that is not unusual. Many people from other parts of the county are travelling two and a half hours for one journey. That comes to a five-hour commute...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (22 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: I urge the Minister to make sure this project is given a concrete timeline and concrete investment. We have a system in Meath where if you stand still somebody will build a house on top of you, such is the level of development that is happening in the county. It is incredible that at a time when fuel prices are rising so much, and while the Government is increasing carbon taxes, so many...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (22 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Former Minister Noel Dempsey promised it would be built by 2004.