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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am just trying to quantify how many people have lost their family home or are at risk of losing their family home from vulture funds and through Ulster Bank directly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Are there any people taking legal cases against the bank for selling off the loans attached to their family home to vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. Blair would obviously be aware of it, so there is none. Of the €39 million that the witnesses say the bank spent in the first half of 2017 on conduct of litigation charges, in the main what does that apply to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I really need to ask the witnesses about Global Restructuring Group, GRG. In terms of the bank selling off family homes to vulture funds, there is no legal case pending.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What contact has the bank had with the Central Bank regarding Global Restructuring Group and what criteria were used to transfer accounts of companies, individuals or other entities to GRG?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Of the 2,140 Irish companies put into GRG, how many had receivers appointed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have several other questions on that issue but I want to move on to the closure of branches. The witness has said that the bank has listened closely to communities. Has he ever reversed a decision after listening to communities? Will he explain how the bank listens to communities? Has it engaged with local chambers of commerce? Has it visited areas such as Ballyhaunis, where a branch...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the bank ever reversed a decision, yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: The customers are a central point in the process of carrying out a cost-benefit analysis. Does the bank talk to customers or people in the locality who are using that branch and depending on it for different cash transactions and different transactions within the bank in the community? Does the bank consider the wider impact on the community? I believe that Ulster Bank and other banks have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I get the picture. The bank is presenting communities and customers with a fait accompliin terms of the closures of the bank. It is wholly unsatisfactory. This is a yes or no question. Will the bank rule out any further closures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (5 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: There may be further closures.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 12 on the Order Paper, the National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017 - First Stage, be taken before No. 1. Yesterday, my party launched an alternative budget - and I look forward to the alternative budgets that will be produced by those who call themselves the opposition in this House - although looking at the news on RTE...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We provide for an increase of €450 in tax credits for the self-employed and for farmers. Senator Norris will be delighted with this.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am extremely disappointed we are the only party that has put forward a fully costed budget, which shows there is an alternative to what is being done at the moment economically. I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this and I look forward to the debate with the Minister. Students have returned to college and householders are finding it extremely difficult to send their children...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 and the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 to empower NAMA and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to contribute to the stability of the housing system through the provision of social and affordable housing.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank Senator Freeman for bringing this vital issue to the attention of the House. Along with my Sinn Féin colleagues, I was delighted to add my name to the list of those supporting this motion. I am aware that during the last term, Senator Freeman worked extensively with my colleague, Senator Devine, on the Seanad Public Consultation Committee, particularly on the issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: On behalf of the Sinn Féin team in the Seanad, I wish to express our sincere sympathies to the families of those who were killed and injured in the Las Vegas atrocity. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this painful time, as indeed they are with those who lost their lives in the incident in Marseilles at the weekend. I wish to move the National Asset Management Agency...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I want to say how dismayed I was yesterday over the hysterical rant from Mr. O'Donovan to my request that capital expenditure address the huge infrastructure deficit in rural areas.