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- Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is obviously important legislation for many reasons given the huge importance and influence of digital services and social media, and just how much our lives now are caught up with the digital world, information technology, online economic activity and all of that stuff. Particularly important in our thinking on this are the recent horrible events where a small group of malign far-right...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the targets and delivery of social and affordable housing, including targets for cost rental, LA or AHB provided affordable to buy and social, since the beginning of Housing for All and the actual delivery of each type up to end of quarter 3 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55692/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Honohan for his contribution. I am playing serious catch-up in terms of trying to get my around this. I am perusing the introduction and I apologise for being late. I hope that he understands our difficulty because he said it was quite technical. In his opening statement, as provided, he stated: Here’s a question you should put to them [I presume Mr. Honohan means the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I like Mr. Honohan's more succinct summary, where he asked "is there ever a 'valid' reason for super normal profits"? These people are carpetbaggers or vultures whose objective is super profits. Is one way to minimise the amount of profit they are allowed to legally make? Can Mr. Honohan talk a little about how much profit they are making? I am not an expert on all this, by any means, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Can the investor chase the full value?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I get that. What is the answer? It is a disaster for the poor borrowers who are trying to deal and get forbearance. Do we stop the secondary market? Do we stop these vultures outright from being to buy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that not about driving these vultures out effectively? It is our pillar banks with which we have some flipping relationship.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever language Mr. Honohan wants to put on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Namely, forbearance. Is that Mr. Honohan's point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or if they are screwing the person for excessive interest rates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the directive help in this regard? The issue is that the Government needs to ensure that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Forbearance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, I apologise to Mr. Honohan if he has gone through this already. Is he concerned that the Government is not going to properly enforce that obligation to offer forbearance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, for the idiot's guide - as it were - how is the Government proposing to proceed with that soft law? Is it in the way it will be transposed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So our committee needs to recommend that it is legislated for. Is this what Mr. Honohan is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Right.