Results 20,061-20,080 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I ask the question is because, if for any reason Greece defaulted, is it the case that we would not get the money back? Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on the same line of questioning, do we know how many customers, in particular mortgage holders, ICS has?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on the same line of thought that we might consider the implication of this legislation for real human beings and families, maybe it would be useful to find that information out. Is there any intention on the part of the Department to notify or alert customers with ICS that legislation in the offing which could affect their mortgages or deposits? Has that been discussed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that after the legislation or before it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That means after the fact, or after legislation has been passed to facilitate the transfer of people's mortgages and deposits to Bank of Ireland to be sold on to some unknown party, they will be notified that this will happen. Am I correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I not correct in saying that it will be utilised and that is why we are passing the legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought it was a condition and that the European Commission requires this to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is slightly semantic. I understand-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that and the constraints on them but from the point of view of the lay person, that is kind of semantic because, in reality, we will decide whether to pass legislation which is being put before the Dáil specifically for the purposes of transferring ICS to Bank of Ireland which then is required to sell it on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have established it is highly likely or possible that would be attached to a mortgage book.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Central Bank Bill 2014: Department of Finance (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is that but I would go further. They should be informed that legislation pertaining to them and which could affect them in a very substantial way is now being discussed. They might have views. We just discussed whether it might be the case that Bank of Ireland would deal differently with mortgages than ICS or whether another third party purchaser might deal even more differently with...
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. First, the Minister of State did not respond on the contrast between Europe's apparent concern in Ukraine to uphold territorial integrity and sovereignty as a fundamental principle, which is what the Taoiseach stated, and its absolute failure to do that in relation to Palestine. In fact, these are starkly contrasting approaches. One country gets sanctioned for...
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is not out of order.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister of State to comment on the property sector. I have spoken previously about the growing homelessness and housing crisis but the macro-economic dimension of this issue has not been discussed. I raised the issue with the Fiscal Advisory Council at the Joint Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. The council was introduced by the troika to...
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government concerned about this or is anybody in Europe discussing it? The point of the troika's intervention and the establishment of the Fiscal Advisory Council was supposedly to ensure these kind of imbalances do not arise again.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the question.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are these issues being discussed or is the focus solely on banks recovering value from asset portfolios?
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair only interrupts Members from the Technical Group.
- European Council: Statements (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There should be no ambiguity about our attitude to the Russian actions in Ukraine. They should be condemned outright. President Putin’s regime is vile. It has been involved in vicious repression of the Pussy Riot movement and gay people and carried on a terrible and brutal campaign of Russian imperialism in the smaller nations surrounding Russia which has earned it the title, Prison...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not much of it going around.