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Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: -----I want to tell the Deputy that he is moving outside the remit of the Bill.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I have.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I want to tell the Deputy-----

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: A passing reference is allowed.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: If the Deputy wishes to challenge the Chair, he should take up the matter somewhere else.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: By all means, the Deputy may do so.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: That is quite in order.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I can tell the Deputy all about that. First, if that were the case, it would be included in the Bill, but it is not.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy may cover the issue of housing and many others in the context of the Bill by way of a passing reference, which is allowed. That has always been the tradition of the House. Otherwise, one comprehensive Bill to cover everything would be the order of the day, but it is not that way. Therefore, the Deputy should not continue with this nonsense.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: Then the Deputy is out of order. I am sorry, but I do not want to rule him out of order because I would have to move on to the next speaker.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: If the Deputy persists, I will have to move on to the next speaker. His behaviour is not allowed. Everybody else is entitled to fair play also.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I remind the Deputy that it is not in order to challenge the Chair; it never has been. Unless he changes Standing Orders – he may, by all means, do so, bearing in mind that they are being revised and considered – he is not in order to challenge the Chair. He may continue on the Adoption (Amendment) Bill if he wishes to speak to it.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy’s consideration of the issue must still be within the scope of the Bill. He knows this as a long-standing Member of the House and I am sure he has learned all about it in the past five years or more. He should, please, refrain from straying outside the scope of the Bill. He has made his passing reference. The Deputy persistently zooms in on the housing issue, which would...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett who has 30 minutes.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The next timeslot will be shared by Deputies Joan Burton and Jan O'Sullivan.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the guests. I note the reference to the gradual reduction in the number of mortgages in arrears. Can Mr. O'Connor give some indication as to the number of settlements reached by way of resolution to the satisfaction of the borrower or by way of repossession and the difference between the two? Mr. O'Connor mentioned that the Insolvency Service of Ireland assisted 3,000 borrowers....

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: This goes to the nub of the issue. Perhaps Mr. O'Connor could provide a quick clarification. Is there not a certain amount of timidity in the way the insolvency system approaches this? For example, I - and all of the members here - deal with cases on behalf of constituents. One of the issues that has arisen time and again relates to situations where the banks tell borrowers that they are...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: The word "sustainability" is used regularly. The lender determines whether an individual's capacity is sustainable. Deputy Cowen referred to the right to appeal to the courts. What has been the experience of those who have done so? The banks said three, four or five years ago that mortgages were sustainable and awarded loans on foot of that. Now that they are totally unsustainable, there...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Insolvency Service of Ireland (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: That has not answered my question. I find it difficult to understand how a lending agency can have decided three, four or five years ago that a particular application for a loan was sustainable - it must have been because otherwise it would not have been approved - but has now determined that it is unsustainable and can demand repossession, the sale of the asset or whatever the case may be....

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (17 May 2016)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Hall for coming before the committee. He put forward a solution whereby the State should intervene because it owns a number of banks and should subsidise the system by entering the marketplace and writing down mortgages or paying the mortgage in the same way as rent support. What would be the cost to the State? Does he differentiate between those who are paying, trying to pay...