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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Are banks using those templates now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that allowed within the Credit Review Office's current remit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is the Credit Review Office pursuing different lending, not just from a bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a key point. That means that the Credit Review Office is exactly what SMEs need because all they want is access to the credit, the money. If the Credit Review Office is accessing all potential lenders not just the bank that refused them in the first instance, it is a total asset to the business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree. Does the Credit Review Office work with Ulster Bank as well and what figures does it have for overturning its original decisions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I wish Mr. Trethowan the best of luck and continued success. Thank you, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: For how long has that been included?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: How many are granted first off without having to go through the appeals process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Can anybody here tell us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: It would be good if it could be supplied to us because we cannot know if the Department is working successfully. If the majority of cases end up being appealled, we will know there is a problem at first stage. Some 50% of appeals are successful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Ms Gleeson gave a lot of information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I asked what would improve matters overall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Will Ms Gleeson clarify that? Has she asked the Department for a more timely response and how is it reacting? What are the indications that there will be a more timely response? She is in the same Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The witnesses are very welcome. I acknowledge the improvements but it does not make for easy reading. Like Senator Moloney's experience, I met a woman recently who had been seeking invalidity pension for one and a half years before approaching me. She believed the entire country was down on her. With the help of the Oireachtas line, we got a response for her within approximately six weeks...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am proud of our Taoiseach today, proud that he had the capacity to deliver such a meaningful apology and to provide an indication of the compensation deal on behalf of the Government and the people to the Magdalen women.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I met them this morning in Buswells Hotel and they were so happy they were walking 10 ft. tall. They put it to me that a great weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They are new women today. However, I am not only proud for the Magdalen women, I am proud for Ireland. We have had such a blackened and hidden past but what we did as a Government yesterday lifted the veil off that....
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Any of these people could have been our sisters, mothers or daughters. This is highly significant and I wish to put as much on the record. I was flabbergasted today by a story in The Irish Times that our pillar banks could consider writing off some of the ¤400 million debt of Independent News & Media, the largest newspaper group with popular titles such as the Sunday Independent and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We saw before that they used our State funds to pay off their bankers with their pensions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: The Taoiseach had to intervene. We need an answer and I believe the House should join me in requesting it.