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- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: He said it would be crazy for the banks to repossess and he wanted a guarantee that there would be no repossessions of family homes for the duration of this recession. He said it in this House and he put it very eloquently-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----and articulately that it should be the case.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: My point is that when the deputy Governor of the Central Bank says there has to be a significant number of repossessions that does not tally with the language of only in extremis.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: It does not tally with the Taoiseach's claim that it would be only in very extreme cases. There is something missing in the equation. The Secretary General of the Department of Finance, John Moran, is saying very clearly that there must be a significant number of repossessions. The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank is saying there must be a significant number of repossessions but the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is a big gap or lacuna between the reality of what the Central Bank officials are saying and what the Minister and politicians are saying.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The people on the ground are telling us the reality of what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have been interrupted non-stop. The people on the ground are telling us what is happening in their engagement with the banks.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government Deputies all know this. We have all heard about small business owners whose overdrafts were cut and so on. The same is now happening to mortgage holders.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: I invite people to go out and knock on doors and listen to what people are saying.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: Dealing with the banks on a daily basis is very different from what officialdom says is happening. People are worried with very good reason because of the behaviour of the banks towards them.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not what John Moran is saying.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Ministers attacked him.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have read it. He said our repossessions are much lower than anywhere else.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: During the past week there was much discussion of the mortgage arrears crisis, preparing the scene for yesterday's announcement by the Government. The question of repossessions loomed large in that discussion, worryingly so for many families. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, have been at pains to play down any prospect of repossessions....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: On LMFM yesterday the Tánaiste was similarly lauding this plan. The bottom line is that there are 23,500 people with mortgages in arrears for more than two years. That is very similar to the targets the banks have been given. These 20,000 people odd are clearly in the firing line for repossessions because the banks have to make offers and proposals. There is no definition of what a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----the capacity of borrowers to survive after such a deal is made in their daily lives and in keeping them and their families together. When Deputy Michael McGrath and our finance team put together a debt settlement office Bill, which suggested the establishment of an independent office, the Minister accepted-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am putting it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister accepted that legislation, in principle. Will he indicate, first, what Matthew Elderfield means by a significant number of repossessions and, second, will he provide, independent of the banking system in its entirety, for independent oversight on behalf of the borrower and mortgage holder because, without question, the imbalance in the relationship between the banks and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----is confirmed and exacerbated by the announcements made yesterday?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that IT Tallaght has spent €3.5 million from non Exchequer resources as part of the preparatory phase of a major capital work which his Department included in its commitments under the public capital programme but which has subsequently not been funded; his views on whether it fair that the...