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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: I presume the Central Bank will investigate how it happened and why.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: Yes

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: Are the 57 complaints Ms Rowland is mentioning being processed through the Global Restructuring Group, GRG?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: On the mortgage issue, Ms Rowland is correct about the work of this committee in terms of the tracker mortgage examination. The testimony we have heard here from the affected customers shocked the country and this committee is committed to staying with this issue until the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: It does not say it here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: It states that Mason, Hayes & Curran was engaged to undertake the independent review.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: It is an earlier phase, but that is the only mention here of the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

John McGuinness: I thank Professor Lane and his colleagues for attending the meeting. I know it was long but there are many issues that confront us which we have to deal with. The clerk might take up the discussion on the credit unions for the future. We might have a fuller engagement on that. In closing the meeting, I referred earlier to the case of a young woman who has been jailed since the long...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Policy (15 May 2018)

John McGuinness: 516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason foster carers are no longer covered by public liability insurance through Tusla; if the cover provided by the HSE before Tusla was established can be extended to all concerned; if Tusla has written to all foster carers advising them of the fact that there is no cover; if Tusla will clarify the position and set out a timeframe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: We are now in public session. We will go into private session to deal with a number of matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: We are now back in public session. I welcome Dr. Martha O'Hagan-Luff and Mr. Brendan Burgess to the meeting. We will be joined later by Mr. David Hall. We had intended to have three separate sessions for each submission but maybe it can be done in one session. We will leave an opening statement to be made by each witness. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: I apologise to Mr. David Hall. Things changed a bit this morning. Dr. O'Hagan-Luff has just concluded her opening statement. We will now hear the opening statement from Mr. Burgess. We will then go to Mr. Hall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: The Senator should let the witness walk us through the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: I must ask the Senator to conclude. To whom is he addressing his questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: We will write to the Central Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: I will return to Mr. Hall's opening statement. He said that this situation could lead to 17,000 families being evicted unless an alternative is arranged. In discussing this with the banks, I asked them about iCare, how they are interacting with it, whether it is a solution and are they co-operating. Will Mr. Hall give us an idea of the success -or otherwise - of iCare? Will he also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: What else needs to be done? I ask the question because Mr. Hall says 17,000 families may be evicted, and that the number is growing. I read in an article in one newspaper last weekend that €15 billion would be the total value of mortgages being sold to vulture funds by the banks because of the action of ACC Loan Management and others. What will save these families from repossession?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: Has Mr. Hall made that clear to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Department of Finance? Has he engaged with officials from those two Departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: Does the 31,500 households Mr. Hall mentioned in his opening statement that cannot pay include the 17,000 households he mentioned at the end?