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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: John Barry is a Limerick man in his 60s who had to retire following a heart attack and who subsequently suffered a debilitating brain injury. Mr. Barry has been given notice to quit by his landlord who had a long-term leasing arrangement with Limerick City and County Council. The landlord is evicting Mr. Barry on the grounds that he needs to move a family member into the property, while at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I was contacted by a very nice man I met many years ago. He informed me that he was previously in the Army and that he had been a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of an officer over many years. Approximately 20 years ago, he took a High Court case where, although the sexual abuse was acknowledged, finding the Army culpable was not accepted at that time by the court. Since...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an EU army.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well, there are battle groups, if not an EU army.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s Strategy Statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update those goals. [24730/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Owen is a pensioner with severe diabetes who has had half his leg amputated and he has associated heart and kidney issues. His wife, Myrna, works full time as a home carer, but because her income takes them over the social housing income threshold, they are living effectively in a cupboard. She sleeps in the bed and Owen has to sleep on a couch with his condition, but cannot sleep until the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be a sliding scale. It should not be a cliff.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Ashmore for an interesting presentation. I learned a lot. Mr. Ashmore may say what I ask about is commercially sensitive. I hope he will not. Is it possible to get more detail on the spread, type and categories of investments and their geographical location? I am curious about that. Are there tables that say we have this much in housing or forestry and how detailed are those...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Similarly, on an international level, is all the detail about the countries and so on reported?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is interesting. Mr. Ashmore stated that the job of ISIF is commercial investment. I think "on the commercial side of the line" is the way he put it. That is a slightly blurry line in some areas, is it not? It could be argued that it is hard to say on which side of the line social, public and affordable housing are. I would be interested in Mr. Ashmore's view of that. Public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps this is a policy question. It has often struck me that it would be far better if public money was used to own. We get 10% or perhaps 20% of new private developments. The ISIF is involved in some of those. Would it be a good investment or could the ISIF make an investment decision for us to own 50% or 70% of them? That would also potentially mean we could control rents a little...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a policy matter.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there are some areas where it is a little bit blurry. Mr. Ashmore has said the NTMA is somewhat involved in social housing, such as in the case of Part V provision. I am wondering about that. Does the NTMA approach possible partners or do they approach it? How does that work? How does the NTMA decide what businesses or-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a lot of sympathy for that last point, and the desire to torture a human being in person. I thank the witness for the very informative, educational contributions because it is all new to me. There is so much jargon that my head is spinning already. I will try to understand a little bit more with a few questions. For the authorised push payments, do people get reimbursed currently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the idiot's guide, as it were, why would a person not get reimbursed? What are the circumstances that determine whether a person gets reimbursed or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the difference? Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the unauthorised push payments, regardless of whether the money is gone at the other end, the bank reimburses. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I will catch up with a full understanding of it. The reason, in authorised versus unauthorised payments, banks do not automatically make the reimbursement is because they are in a way saying that there is a bit of culpability on the part of the person because they did authorise the payment, even if the person was defrauded and they did it believing this, that or the other. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so I understand, I gather from Deputy Doherty's earlier contribution that in the UK, it happens in either case. Is that correct?