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- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle stated it was not a question; it was.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Tánaiste-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Tánaiste answer the question?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pay cuts.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has claimed repeatedly that it is legally prevented from cutting the obscene pensions of former politicians and top civil servants. As we speak, however, the Government is moving to tear up an agreement made with public sector workers that was supposed to run until the middle of 2014, and is demanding further drastic cuts in pay and conditions for public sector workers who...
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis of mortgage distress is a disaster that will soon turn into a catastrophe. More than 160,000 families are suffocated with an unsustainable debt burden and the number is rising by approximately 800 every week. Nothing has been done. After two years in government there is no let up on the deepening of this crisis. The Government refuses - for reasons I cannot understand - to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What Mr. Trethowan has described is catch-22.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because the decisions that are being made by small and medium enterprises not to look for money or on the part of banks not to give it to them if they do, in the few cases that seek it, are rational within their own terms if one is looking at the micro case or a particular business whether it is viable or not. That decision which is rational in the individual case is completely irrational...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one very last question as my time has expired. I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough and I think the Credit Review Office is playing a valuable role. I am not disputing that, I just wonder how it fits into the bigger picture and I can see the value of what it is doing. Mr. Trethowan appears to be saying that the difference between his attitude towards upholding a loan application and the banks denying it, seems to be the fact that he is taking a slightly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a number of questions, both micro and macro-economic. Mr. Trethowan stated some 323 appeals were dealt with by the Credit Review Office; what is the time period involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Credit Review Office deals with approximately 100 appeals per year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it correct the CRO upheld 250 appeals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many of the 215 appeals has the CRO upheld?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will Mr. Trethowan give me a value for the loan appeals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Trethowan stated this was following 784 internal reviews in the banks prior to the person bringing his or her case to the Credit Review Office. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would Mr. Trethowan have a rough figure for the total value of the 784 loan decisions that were appealed to the bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I could guess, it would be about four or five times the figure given by Mr. Trethowan. If the purpose of the Credit Review Office is to try to make a serious impact on the level of credit being provided for small and medium enterprise, which are regularly described by the Government and others as a key engine of economic recovery and the generation of employment, this is just a drop...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My remarks are not really a criticism of what the Credit Review Office is doing. Every job that has been saved is well worth protecting. I am sure the people involved are tremendously grateful to the CRO for upholding their appeals. In terms of macro-economics, this is simply not going to have a meaningful impact on the wider economic question of whether we generate large scale employment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, in a way that confirms the point of my question. On the macro stage there is actually, notwithstanding the great efforts of CRO, a net reduction in the amount of credit in the system available to small and medium enterprise. This probably corresponds with the general contraction of the SME sector.