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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: The bank would not be against supporting such a legislative change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Permanent TSB (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I apologise for arriving late. One of my colleagues was sick in the Seanad and I had to sit in on a fisheries debate. We are flexible in the Seanad. We are masters of everything or none, depending on one's view on fisheries policy. I will start where Senator Craughwell left off. It relates to the Governor's statements in relation to mortgages and the consultation process. There are two...

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I hope the negotiations go well. From what I have heard through the media, my sympathies lie firmly with the beef farmers. I do not believe that fisher folk in this country benefit from the high prices and neither do consumers. I would like to hear more from the Minister as to why that is so.

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh has raised the issue of safety at sea with the Minister in the House on a number of occasions. He has argued for the introduction of life vests with tracking devices in order that where an accident occurs at sea, a fisherman who is alive or who, unfortunately, has not survived can be recovered. In the latter...

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Has it be done completely and are all fishermen issued with-----

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Of course. Safety at sea is important, particularly in small communities such as the one in the south of Wexford with which I am familiar where a number of serious accidents have occurred at sea, resulting in significant loss of life. The quality of the fleet, particularly smaller vessels, is important. On the Minister's contribution, he started by hailing the dawn of a new era for the...

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: But not landed in Ireland.

Seanad: Fisheries Sector: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: My understanding from what the Minister said is that he is trying to attract a greater proportion of the 1.2 billion tonnes of fish caught in Irish waters. I take it, therefore, that 1.2 billion tonnes of fish are, in fact, caught in Irish waters. The Minister says that of the stocks caught by the Irish fleet, 85% are landed at the six fishery harbours controlled by his Department. That...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government that an additional €4 million will be allocated to the Dublin regional homelessness executive to deal with homelessness in the Dublin region. This is a supplementary sum on top of the money that has already been allocated for homelessness in Dublin. Approximately 300 families are currently...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I express my sympathy to the family of Brian Farrell on his death, including in particular David, whom a number of us got to know very well during the Constitutional Convention. I was in college with David. In terms of famous stories, the story about the route to the Dáil has been mentioned. It is up there with famous UCD stories. Probably the most famous question ever asked by a UCD...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: He was a wonderful man and a wonderful lecturer - I claim him for UCD. I spent many hours in the bar in UCD being inspired by people like Brian Farrell, Maurice Manning and Tom Garvin.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: All wonderful people. I again ask the Leader to facilitate a debate on the statement by the Governor of the Central Bank on mortgage lending. The report is to be finished by January and this House needs to have its say on the matter. The Irish Cancer Society issued a report today which brought to public attention a map prepared by NUI Maynooth which indicates that the incidence of cancer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the witnesses and share Deputy Lynch's view on concerns relating to the Central Bank's statement on access to home ownership. I am interested in the comments that were made on an insurance product and it has been noted today that such insurance products were quite common in the 1980s and 1990s. The loan-to-value ratio was lower in those cases. I am concerned about the ability of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: When he does this, perhaps Mr Boucher might give us his views on the scheme introduced by the UK Government on this - I think it is called the "begin to buy" scheme. Is it worthwhile? I ask for as broad a response as possible on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: A colleague raised the buy-to-let issue and repossessions. I note Bank of Ireland repossessed 300 principal private residences in the first six months of the year and a further 300 buy-to-let properties. Are the witnesses aware of a report published recently by the Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, in association with DKM Economic Consultants, Red C and the Economic and Social...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I am not making a comment on how Bank of Ireland's receivers act.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Is Bank of Ireland in favour of an amendment to the law to clarify this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Could I ask the Chairman to see that this view is passed up the line to the Minister for Finance? The report by the PRTB also recommended the introduction of a code of conduct on mortgage arrears relating to buy-to-let properties. We all know there is now a code of conduct on mortgage arrears relating to family homes but not buy-to-let properties. This is an important issue due to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I am repeating what was reported in newspapers this morning - they are obviously wrong.