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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In other words, the primary legislation might come a cropper in the context of contracts that have already been agreed and it would follow that those contracts would come within the remit of that legislation. A regulation could change, and all contracts would have to be in compliance with that regulation. We could achieve the same thing in a regulatory fashion. This would mean that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Absolutely. Mr. Hall mentioned something I have also heard. I have dealt with more than 400 families who have been in mortgage distress and have helped them to negotiate with banks and vulture funds. Sometimes we get mixed results from our dealing with the banks. Sometimes we also get mixed results from our dealings with vulture funds. Mr. Hall referred to two people who, by means of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that, but I believe there is a sense of justice involved as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: If a family have been put to the pin of their collar, if they are in danger of losing their home and if the interest rate that is set is dependent on the price that was paid, in order for me to be able to negotiate - as I do at times - with the bank, if I know what was paid for the loan, it helps with the negotiation. Maybe it helps in my mind but does not in real terms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I am interested in Mr. Kissane's view on full-term, fixed-interest mortgages. How would that work in light of the fact that a bank will have fluctuating interest rates that it would have to deal with over a given period? Would such a mortgage be on the basis of the initial interest rate and the initial loan being achieved at a certain level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is clear that there is a two-tier mortgage market at the moment. There is no doubt that the people who went through the most difficulty in the past ten years are again being put to the pin of their collars. I do not believe there is anything being offered by the Government. The Government is not defending them. The Central Bank is not defending them. Nobody is protecting them. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The trust of farmers in this Government is very low and I will tell the Minister of State why it is low. We have a supply chain in agriculture at the moment that usually consists of a farmer, maybe a factory, and a supermarket. Agriculture is enormously profitable in this country but all of that profit lands in the last two elements of that supply chain. The factories and supermarkets are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report (details supplied) noting the need to reduce the national herd by 30% in order to meet climate targets; if his Department has undertaken a study to determine the impact that these proposals would have on the livelihoods of farmers; and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Agriculture across the country is in crisis. I do not make that statement lightly. Every year, farmers leave the land. The number of farmers is reducing throughout the Twenty-six Counties. According to Teagasc, only one third of farmers make a living out of the farm. Another third of farmers only make a living because somebody is working off the farm. A full third of farmers are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Climate Change Policy (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That was probably the most nebulous, vague response that we have got to such an important question in this Chamber in a long time. It is incredible that the sector which produces food for this country and is the backbone of rural communities is facing a significant cut to its livelihood by this Government. The EPA report is clear in its focus and targeting of the agricultural sector to...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún seo ó Shinn Féin. In fairness to the Minister for Health, I have to hand it to him for managing to deliver an upbeat speech on the current situation in the health service. It takes a phenomenal level of optimism, or maybe disconnection, to give an upbeat speech in that manner. In his response, there was an element of Comical Ali defending...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In December 2022, Ireland had the highest excess mortality rate since the start of Covid. Ireland had the fourth-highest level of excess mortality in the whole of the European Union for that month. During Covid, at a time when there were fewer excess deaths than in December 2022, the Government’s response was to stop people travelling more than 2 km from their homes, close schools...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9812/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to recent Teagasc research (details supplied) into the sequestering of carbon on Irish farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9817/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the All-Ireland Rail Review. [9843/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Restructuring (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance how many people or companies have received write downs of more than 90% in banks in which the State has had shares, for each for the past ten years. [9730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Restructuring (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance how many people or companies have received write downs of more than 80% in banks in which the State has had shares, for each for the past ten years. [9731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Restructuring (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance if the public interest directors in banks in which the State has had shares were aware of any debt write downs of more than 90% in the past ten years; if so, what actions, if any, the public interest directors took; if the public interest directors made him or his Department aware of these write downs; and if he or his Department took any action. [9732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Restructuring (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance if the public interest directors in banks in which the State has had shares were aware of any debt write downs of more than 80% in the past ten years; if so, what actions, if any, the public interest directors took; if the public interest directors made him or his Department aware of these write downs; and if he or his Department took any action. [9733/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 444. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of the new dedicated State Agency for Early Learning and Care; the reason there is no place available on the new agency for provider representatives; and if he is confident that Frontier Economics will adhere to EU GDPR legislation for the duration of the review that they are undertaking; and if he...