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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (17 Jul 2013)
Simon Harris: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action open to any schools seeking accreditation and consideration to be included on the list of recognised schools used by INIS until such a time as Quality and Qualification Ireland is in a position to inspect and approve language schools; if such schools with EDI approval can be treated on the same basis as QQI approved schools as an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Duffy and his team for what has been a very useful meeting. His answers have been blunt and to the point, which is very much appreciated. One of the things that has struck me and that will strike many taxpayers coming from this meeting is what Mr. Duffy has put on the public record, that is, 50% of people in arrears are refusing or failing to fill in financial statements....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I would like to return to an issue that was pursued by Senator Barrett. I refer to the voluntary sale for loss case study that is outlined on page 18. I echo the Senator's comments in this regard. It could be a question of needing to educate the bank's customers. Indeed, public representatives may need to be educated as well. If people in these circumstances sell their homes and AIB...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I wish to address a number of other issues, including multiple debts, an issue to which Mr. O'Connor referred. I was speaking to a constituent this week who had a monthly mortgage repayment of €1,200 to a bank other than Allied Irish Banks. The person in question was seeking to reduce this repayment to €900 per month for 18 months to facilitate clearing some smaller, shorter...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: In answering a question on the increase in the interest rate, Mr. Byrne referred to the need to carry out a regulatory impact assessment of the effects of an increase on the bank. How many of those currently in mortgage arrears are in arrears as a result of an interest rate increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: This issue is raised with Deputies. I ask Mr. Duffy to comment on a specific issue which has been covered on the airwaves in recent days and on which Allied Irish Banks released a short statement. I refer to a specific case involving bankruptcy proceedings. I will not name the individual in question. An assertion was made in the media that Allied Irish Banks, a taxpayer owned bank, was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: The chief executive of AIB has issued a statement on the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: It has been asserted that AIB did not accept a reasonable offer. I ask Mr. Duffy to comment in general terms on the accusation that the bank refused to accept an offer of 80 cent in the euro.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I thank Mr. Boucher and his team for attending. I will not waste time going over old ground. However, I concur with Deputy O'Donnell with regard to a simple matter being made complicated. We are trying to measure Bank of Ireland against a certain metric and we are finding it difficult to do so in the absence of the information required. What criteria apply with regard to the issuing of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: AIB included a figure for voluntary sales in its submission. As Deputy Michael McGrath indicated earlier, we face a difficulty here in that we are comparing apples and oranges in terms of what banks consider to be part of the resolution process. Obviously, Bank of Ireland does not include that as a measure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: So 75-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: My final point is positive and it is probably one to which Mr. Prizeman may wish to respond. I refer to the work being done by Bank of Ireland's regional and branch managers in respect of credit clinics. I have attended two such clinics in County Wicklow and they were extremely positive in nature. There is a need for an increase in the number of these clinics. I am very much on board with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: Just on-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I asked a question about the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: The Chairman cannot pick and choose-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: The Chairman is picking and choosing which questions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I am not new.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I do not see why Mr. Boucher cannot answer the relevant question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: Senator Paul Coghlan will go first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank (4 Sep 2013)
Simon Harris: I welcome Mr. Brown and his team. I wish to start with his commitment to the market. I do not doubt his personal commitment or that of his team, but it is disconcerting for staff, some customers and the wider stakeholders in the economy to see comments in the British media which describe Ulster Bank as the fly in George Osborne’s ointment, to see that the British Prime Minister wants...