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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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (14 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the equity of IT Tallaght losing €3.5 million from student, non Exchequer resources due to the failure of the State to provide promised capital funding; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this has significant implications for an institute. [13540/13]

European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The agenda for this week's summit yet again lacks either the urgency or the ambition required to tackle the immense problems facing the citizens of Europe. Since the last summit growth has fallen and an even deeper recession has been confirmed. Over 26 million people are now registered as unemployed including a further rise in youth unemployment. Uncertainty has returned to the bond...

European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: He is certainly the first Taoiseach ever to take domestic politics on the road with him when he goes on international trips. This has stopped him consistently pushing Ireland's strongest arguments for the debt relief which is so important for our future.

European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Throughout 2011 he said that Ireland's problems were entirely its own fault. He went to Berlin and the strongest argument he could muster was that it would be a win for the whole team to help Ireland. By October last year he had finally started to recognise the role of the European Central Bank and EU-imposed policies in driving Ireland out of the bond market. On Monday he sought to...