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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Who came to that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: A certain number of what we call vulture funds have two elements to their armoury at this stage. One is they could be the beneficial owners of a considerable loan, while they could also have in their back pocket the power to use one or the other, or both, in order to, for instance, go to court to push the borrower into receivership, which has happened on a fairly regular basis. They could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It appears that the financial ombudsman is a very powerful entity. Am I right in assuming that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is he the most important part of the system-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: -----in terms of authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I know. Moving parts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I have had the same experience as Deputy Doherty. All of us have had the same experience whereby what we call the customer, who is the borrower, originally borrowed from one of the pillar banks but had their loan transferred or sold off, sometimes in a bundle, to a vulture fund. Incidentally, this was against that person's wishes and, in most cases, he or she objected. In most cases where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Perhaps the witnesses would also acquaint the vulture funds as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I have a couple of other questions. At the beginning of the meeting, the availability of cash was discussed. We welcome the intervention on the part of the Central Bank in relation to the availability of cash. I do not think it is sufficiently available yet. There are glitches. The number of cash machines you approach nowadays only to be told the machine is temporarily out of order is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Cathaoirleach and apologise for arriving late. It was a morning of meetings and more meetings. I welcome the Minister of State and her colleagues to the committee. I wish them well in their work ahead. A few things are important in relation to health promotion. We must undertake this endeavour in the schools for starters. It must become trendy. It is not trendy enough now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: If we were to compare ourselves here with other jurisdictions right across Europe, how is this same situation being handled in France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.? These are countries that have a high standard of living. How are they managing to encourage and create what I referred to earlier as a trendiness around healthy eating and having a normal weight, etc.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine can and must promote its own sector. It is in its interest and that of the economy for it to do so. The more nutritious foods, however, are the ones we should try to support in a way that impacts young people while also being attractive to them. I say this because I am not so sure the message telling young people to eat more vegetables...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The point is that I think we need to do a little bit more in concentrating on the things that will have a quick and ongoing impact, while at the same time making healthy eating attractive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In case people might get the impression I am anti-vegetable, I am not. However, one of the things I have noticed because I am very conscious of these things, despite what people might think, is that a vegetable carries a certain taste and sometimes in the cooking, that taste is altered. That does not do anything for anybody, I can tell you. Perhaps I am odd but I certainly like the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will not delay this time because I have to be elsewhere. I thank our guests for their contributions, their contribution to the health of the nation in general and their analysis. We have simple ways of looking at these things. The main issues have been set out, including alcohol, eating and overeating, which is a big issue, the practices that have led to most ill health and the need to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I would not necessarily agree entirely with Ms Morrissey. I believe that people do have concern, needing to do the right thing in certain circumstances. In the previous part of the meeting we spoke about colour coding the danger areas and so on, insofar as diet is concerned. I believe that is effective and can concern people about their future and the future of their health. I believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will come in again later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Is it backdated?