Results 341-360 of 431 for rebuilding ireland come loan

Seanad: Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (16 Jun 2016)

Ray Butler: ...Coghlan all the best in his new position as Leas-Chathaoirleach. I congratulate the Minister on her new post. She has always been a great people person and she is the right person for the job. Rebuilding the economy to support job creation, leading to the delivery of sustainable full employment, has been a key objective of this Government and the previous one, which I had the pleasure...

Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

John McGuinness: ...taxes if they were not wasted. My other issue is what happens when we create an agency such as Irish Water. A total of €2.6 billion of taxpayers' money will go to Irish Water in funding and loans from the time of its establishment to the end of 2016. These are not my figures; they come from the Comptroller and Auditor General. However, the Comptroller and Auditor General does...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (8 Jul 2015)

...the rate of improvement and investment was going fast enough. I've also accepted in my evidence thus far that had we spent less, we would have been less exposed when the crisis hit. It would have come at a cost of having less employment and economic growth but that in turn would have reduced our ability to come out of the recession as relatively quickly as we have. One way or the other...

Credit Unions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...for the recovery to be fair, the credit unions need access to those who will not get bank lending. In order for it to be spread, we need to give the credit unions the resources and power to become an essential part of SME lending. In 2012, we established a structure around Microfinance Ireland, which took a long time to get going. Only in the last 12 months, under the direction of a new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

...completed its review of our restructuring plan and signed off on it in April. This plan provides a clear roadmap for the group and while it reflects many of our own plans and ambitions for the coming years, it also sets out clear targets in areas such as the deleveraging of non-core assets which the group is now bound to deliver within a specified timeframe. We believe the plan will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (22 Apr 2015)

...to move to a position of sustainability. Our discussions with the committee informed and helped frame our subsequent decision-making. We did not always necessarily agree but we have held a common goal to rebuild AIB from its distressed state after the crisis into a profitable bank equipped to support the Irish economy, to prioritise professional service for our customers and, over time,...

Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...;n. Tugann ár bpáirtí tacaíocht do chuspóirí an rúin atá os ár gcomhair. There can be no recovery in our society without the support of our SME sector. Seventy percent of people employed in Ireland are employed in the SME sector. That is an incredible statistic, which should put in sharp focus where most workers work. Last year, a tiny...

Personal Solvency (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (11 Mar 2015)

Willie Penrose: ...has been against overwhelming odds. It has been against the gombeen men of international finance and those foreign forces which arrayed themselves to take what chunks they may from the body of Ireland. Ireland has honoured any obligation she has to the international community and well the members of that community know it. The international community has taken its pound of flesh and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Industry (Resumed): ICOS and Positive Farmers (3 Feb 2015)

Mr. Michael Murphy: It is a great honour to come before the committee today. I wish to warn everyone that there will be a small amount of repetition because I will be making some of the same points as previous speakers. I will commence by making introductions. I am a dairy farmer operating in Ireland but I also have interests in the United States and New Zealand and I do a little work in...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)

Peter Mathews: ...majority ever in this State. It follows from what was equivalent to the physical destruction that occurred in Europe in the years 1939 to 1945. There was physical destruction that required a rebuilding of the countries where that destruction had taken place. In Ireland, there was financial destruction. We hear the figure of €64 billion as being the amount of money that had to...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yesterday the Government delivered its fourth budget to the House. This is a budget to secure our recovery and get Ireland working again. It is a recovery that many in this House said was impossible. When the Government was elected into office, the outlook was very uncertain. Unemployment was rising rapidly, the deficit was out of control and the financial system remained at risk. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Newly Elected Irish MEPs: Discussion (2 Oct 2014)

...into humanitarian relief across the world. I would like to set out the key issue with regard to investment. Of course we need investment, but someone has to pony up the money. Investment in Ireland decreased by 20%, or one fifth, from the top of the crisis in 2008 to the bottom of the crisis now. The question of whether this is the bottom of the crisis is an open one. That is private...

Strategic Banking Corporation Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2014)

Michael Noonan: ...being provided, some of them to do with the interest rate charged, others to do with the length of the payback period and others to do with the fact it is very difficult for an SME to borrow in Ireland and have a payback holiday for, say, 20 or 24 months before the repayments pick up. As one moves from cash flow to profitability, it should be possible to design products, in the same way...

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (10 Jul 2014) See 1 other result from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...publicly and expressions of interest sought from all over. This Bill, I regret, represents another false dawn for Irish business and for Irish SME in particular. The kind of bumf that has come with it, is reminicent of some of the worst marketing skills of banks in the so-called boom times. Letting out and giving this kind of information, that this Bill and this organisation could make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Access to Finance for SMEs: (Resumed) ISME, IBEC and SFA (13 May 2014)

...to finance for SMEs. The SFA represents 8,000 small businesses throughout the country, all of which are customers in some way of the banking sector. The SFA is the voice of small business in Ireland and internationally, with members and affiliated organisations in all sectors and parts of the country. We specialise in the provision of valuable business-focused advice, developing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012 (8 May 2014)

Mr. John Moran: I will give some general statements and will call on Mr. Hogan who is closer to the market side to come in. Taking it in inverse order and dealing with the SME sector, I referred earlier to the fact that in the earlier part of the crisis, much of our focus, appropriately so, was on trying to get lending to SMEs. The target for that lending obviously included viable...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (12 Mar 2014)

Lorraine Higgins: ...addressed the deep-seated problems with competition in the banking sector. We need to tackle it head on. Small and medium enterprises make up 99% of all businesses in this country yet we have a loan rejection rate second only to Greece in the eurozone at 24%. We have the second-highest level of discouraged borrowers and we also have the worst terms and conditions applying to new credit...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...billion in sovereign bonds validly issued by the State and for the Government to unilaterally cease payments on the interest associated with that sovereign debt would be detrimental to the recovery of Ireland and its ability to obtain funding from international financial markets. This approach would jeopardise all the work that has been done so far by the State and the Irish people to...

Access to Credit: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2013)

Michael McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this debate, the importance of which is the reason Fianna Fáil decided to dedicate our Private Members' time to the issues of lending and the establishment of a State-owned, SME-focused new enterprise bank. The debate's starting point is to acknowledge that we have a real problem. If we do not acknowledge the problem with availability of...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Exchequer. That is sad to see. It is a questionable practice. We must continually consider how our taxation system can capture those who hold moneys, who claim to be Irish citizens, who work in Ireland but conveniently manage to be out of the country long enough to avoid paying tax here. It is a pity that the low rate of corporation tax was not strengthened in this Bill to ensure it is...