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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: We had the presentation by Mr. David Hall. His company covers loans other than ones with AIB. Is Mr. O'Keeffe saying that, in the context of AIB, even though the company might have cases that are at court level, using iCare is a solution, it will encourage people to go for that option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Is it the case that as customers respond to AIB, their cases are passed on to iCare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: The Senator's time is up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: That concludes our meeting. I thank Mr. Byrne and his colleagues for attending.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: We did actually cover some of that stuff already.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Records (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 126. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 527 of 14 November 2017 and 542 of 5 December 2017, the person that issued the certificate of service; the date it was issued; and the timeframe for the certificate to be issued (details supplied). [4023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in not being paid on band A of the child care eligibility criteria for their child; and if approval for the proper payment will be expedited. [4021/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the record of contributions in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason they are not in receipt of a full State pension (contributory). [4022/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: We are dealing with progress on the resolution of the tracker mortgage redress issue. I welcome Ms Francesca McDonagh, group chief executive of Bank of Ireland, and her colleagues. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee. However, if they are directed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I am conscious there is a vote in the House but I will continue the meeting if members are agreeable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: When Ms McDonagh answered Senator O'Donnell with regard to her opening remark that she had spent 20 years in a variety of senior banking roles in the UK and internationally, will she give us a flavour of which banks she was with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Was any of those banks subjected to, or did Ms McDonagh come across, anything like this, where the bank did something wrong and was penalised by the regulator in that jurisdiction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: So Ms McDonagh can apply that experience here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Ms McDonagh has depth of experience, and she has had experience of this type of issue or something like it in other banks. When she was asked about the staff in the bank and their return to the tracker product, did she say they were legally literate and should understand what they were getting into?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: No, is that what Ms McDonagh said at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: She stated she felt they could not be included because they should be legally literate about these trackers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Ms McDonagh has never said that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Okay. Senator Kieran O'Donnell said we are reaching the end. I do not think we are reaching the end. I think we have quite a way to go because a significant number of issues still remain. I am taking Ms McDonagh at face value, based on her experience and on what she has said about the purpose of the bank now. She has said that it is customer-centred and so on. I want to get an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I will send Ms McDonagh the details of that case-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Bank of Ireland (30 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: -----and a number of other cases. I am saying all of this here at this committee not because I want someone to be treated differently, but because I want the weakest in the group to feel that they are as good as the strongest within the group and that their cases will be heard as quickly and as efficiently as the cases of others. That is why I am raising these cases. It is a test, just as...