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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (19 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: The Minister's preference is to have the relationships form organically. Every time I read about the creation of a new technological university in this country, my heart sinks. This is because Dundalk is isolated and has been left stranded. I see every announcement as a missed opportunity for DkIT and its students. The delays and obfuscation over the past few years have been inexcusable....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (19 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is working with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the relevant agencies to provide opportunities to match refugees from the Ukraine with employment opportunities; if her Department is considering running jobs fair-type events across the country with local agencies for that purpose; and if she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (19 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I apologise to the witnesses. I will have to leave for the Chamber in ten minutes. I think I will get the opportunity to hear their opening statements but then I will have to leave.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his engagement with a company (details supplied) to roll-out a shared rural network to ensure that mobile coverage blackspots in Ireland are eliminated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25058/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his engagement with mobile network operators in Ireland to roll-out a shared rural network in Ireland to ensure that mobile coverage blackspots in Ireland are eliminated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25074/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if he anticipates any difficulty or delay in payment of the €1,000 pandemic bonus payment wherein a qualifying individual is now working for a new employer within a qualifying sector; to outline whether two or more employers are expected to split the cost of the pandemic bonus payment in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: My first questions are for the representatives from KBC. Then I will put some questions and observations to both KBC and Ulster Bank. Will Mr. Jansen or his colleagues tell the committee what will happen with KBC's tracker mortgage accounts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is being managed in the context of the Bank of Ireland transaction, pending the approval of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. How many tracker mortgages does KBC have on its banks at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have a general question on the account migration process. KBC has told the committee it expects that process to be completed in 14 months. That is the timeline on which it is operating. What happens to a KBC current account that has not migrated by the time it finally exits and completes its withdrawal? What happens to legacy accounts? If there are accounts that have not migrated to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: Mr. Jansen made clear what the process is in his opening statement and I thank him for that. We understand that. With regard to legacy accounts, if a person does not transition to a new financial provider what happens to that money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: KBC anticipates as part of the proposed agreement that Bank of Ireland will take responsibility for that resource and for those accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I believe it is fair to say that KBC Ireland is in a hurry to leave this market. We were all stunned when KBC announced that, essentially, it was giving customers three months to close their accounts, to deal with everything that is involved with switching or closing an account, and to move to a new provider. We know from the experience of bank customers in the market that even under normal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: Was it KBC that decided or did the Central Bank ask KBC to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: It is a straight question. Did the Central Bank instruct, or at least ask, KBC to extend the period?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: And they asked KBC to extend it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: My concluding series of questions are directed to both institutions. Mr. Jansen indicated that KBC spoke to a number of stakeholders when it was considering the execution of this process. I am assuming that the bank engaged fully with the staff representatives in the Financial Services Union to discuss how this process was going to work, and to discuss training requirements and redeployment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: That is an internal employee council. It is not an independent trade union. My next questions are for both institutions. I am concerned, as are other members, about the position whereby people may have difficulty switching and opening new accounts in the context of direct debit payments with utility companies and so on. Will the witnesses from Ulster Bank and KBC talk the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: I have one final question. The banks had a round-table meeting with the Central Bank yesterday and, as I said earlier, both Mr. Colm Kincaid and the Governor of the Central Bank made it clear to the committee a few short weeks ago that they did not believe the exiting or receiving banks were ready to execute this process in a customer-focused way. When the banks met Central Bank officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: There is an opportunity here for the banking sector and individual retail banks to restore badly damaged reputations. All of us, and the public more widely, are watching this very closely indeed. Representatives from the Central Bank came before the committee in early April and told us that, as far they were concerned, all of the evidence they had suggested that the exiting and receiving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with Ulster Bank and KBC Ireland (18 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: From that I might take it the Central Bank may have had a stern conversation with the banks that were present and that it is positive the conversation has taken place.