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- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Deputy Ó Snodaigh's colleague saved one minute, so he has three.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Yes.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am glad to be in the Chair.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I was not in the Chair at that stage. I do not know what transpired.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am sorry, Minister.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am sorry, Minister. We are moving on. I have just taken over the Chair.
- Mortgage Restructuring: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Please, Minister. We are moving on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: It has been a pleasure to hear Mr. Trethowan's contribution and answers to our questions and observations. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett mentioned the big picture - the recovery of demand and the economy. The banking system is like the plumbing system that makes a house - the economy - warm or go cold. How can we support demand instead of it going flat, as Deputy Mary Lou McDonald mentioned?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Mr. Trethowan should keep up the good work. We need his persuasiveness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: Senator Aideen Hayden made a correct point. There is a fear in the banks and their customers. We must eliminate this fear through correct management and the provision of facts. We must have a write-down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: By inference, the bad piece must be written down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the Chairman who has been very kind to me today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The tragedy is that the banks did not do this. This is what they should have been doing for the past 15 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Credit Review Office has revealed the size of the task by the work it has done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is a précis of the overview of where we are at. It comes back to what Deputy Boyd Barrett was saying about whether the banks need more capital and better capabilities in their teams assessing various portfolios to be more responsive and brutally truthful about their requirements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: With respect, auditors are legislatively protected from any threat of breaking of confidentiality when they review the books and report to the members. The State is the member of AIB and is a significant member, with public interest directors, of Bank of Ireland. This could be an adjunct to the normal audit function, which failed so miserably in the past. Every bank broke all the rules of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I would like to propose that to help Mr. Trethowan. What the Credit Review Office has done on a microcosmic level is very instructive, illustrative and revealing. If we expand it, we will get a very effective team of visitation and penetration into the banks. The Central Bank only deals with aggregates and does not have a clue what is going on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Credit Review Office is getting into the nitty-gritty, the inside leg measurement stuff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is over three years. Some might find since Mr. Duffy took over that AIB has less of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Access to Credit Provision: Discussion with Credit Review Office (20 Feb 2013)
Peter Mathews: I was going to propose in my contribution that given the effectiveness, at a microcosm level, of what has been done to date with a very limited mandate, and really one of listening, that what Mr. Trethowan is doing be brought to the attention of SMEs that have not had a happy credit application experience and want to take it further. The work he has done and the overturn rate suggests that...