Results 28,241-28,260 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. McLoughlin believe that it is right, proper and fair to give them €2,000 in those circumstances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The bank believes it is fair to pay €2,000 to those who can afford a €200,000 mortgage. Bank of Ireland sees that as fair, right and proper for those who can afford such a loan. Let us look at the person whose family home has been repossessed. The bank has put them and their family out of their house and the residual debt is €200,000. The bank has deemed that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Are you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Mr. Boucher is handing out a cheque to somebody he deems can afford a €200,000 mortgage, while at the same time screwing the person he has turfed out of their house for €200,000 of residual debt that his bank deems they cannot pay. That is not fair in my book. I have two minutes left and I want to focus on Mr. Boucher's own remuneration. He knows that the Government will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an toscaireacht. We are probably at odds over its version of what happened to its bank consequent to the action of the Government. The delegates claimed the recapitalisation moneys were an investment. It was not a voluntary investment by the State; the bank would not have existed without it. It was bust and came knocking at the State’s door for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: It does. In how many cases was this done in the past year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Would there have been thousands of cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Does Bank of Ireland not write off voluntarily any other type of debt associated with mortgages for anybody outside the legal process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: With regard to the legal process, how many bankruptcies were Bank of Ireland customers involved in over the past year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Would it be in the region of ten or fewer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: It was mentioned that 22 proposals from the PIPs involved Bank of Ireland. The delegates then stated 11 were voted on and that a further four were then voted on. Can the delegates explain those three figures again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: What does Mr. Mason mean by saying the bank was involved in four of the 11? It is 11 of the 70, not 11 of the 22.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Bank of Ireland is very supportive of the personal insolvency service, yet it has voted against half of its recommendations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: It is the only sample we have. We know the system is not working. One reason is that the bank holds a veto. It has shown today it is very willing to use it. It has vetoed one proposal and voted against the other. When a proposal from a PIP comes forward and Bank of Ireland has the ability to veto it, and where a debt write-down could take place, will it exercise that veto? Mr. Boucher...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Bank of Ireland will veto any proposal from a PIP concerning a write-down where it has the opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Therefore, the only way the bank will allow a debt write-down is when that opportunity is taken from it owning to its being overruled by vote on the basis of its being a minority creditor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: That is appalling. One cannot square it with the statement that Mr. Boucher made that the bank is supportive of the personal insolvency service. The delegation is telling the committee the bank will veto every opportunity involving a debt-write-down proposal of a PIP.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: For secured debt. The personal insolvency service told us an average of 19% of secured debt is written down on average based on PIPs' proposals. The bank is saying it will torpedo every single one of these through the veto the Government gave it if it has the opportunity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: It is very rare that I am lost for words but I can tell the delegates they have done it again. On the subject of repossessions, Mr. Boucher is the fourth CEO to appear at a meeting of the committee in the past three days. Between them, they have issued letters, including legal letters, seeking the surrender of 30,034 properties. Bank of Ireland is responsible for 6,650 of those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Are we not going to suspend?