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

Aideen Hayden: I am more concerned about the principle than the figure.

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

Aideen Hayden: My final question relates to the report we produced. Will Bank of Ireland be happy to fund an independent service for distressed mortgage holders as AIB has?

Seanad: Penal Reform: Motion (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I second the motion and thank my colleague, Senator Bacik, for bringing this matter before us. I thank the Irish Penal Reform Trust for its briefing to us. It has welcomed this motion which calls on the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her proposals for reform of penal policy in the context of the recommendations of the report on penal reform by the Joint Committee on Justice,...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Is Senator Norris suggesting-----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I am sorry but I cannot let that go.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I wish to start by commending Ruhama, an organisation that deals with women who are involved in prostitution, and congratulate it for its excellent work. It dealt last year with 305 women from 36 countries who have been affected by prostitution. Of those 305 women, 83 were trafficked into Ireland. It is the lowest form of reprehensibility to see women in this country treated in this way....

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ----- and that is something this House has many times debated.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Could we have an update on where we stand in relation to that particular proposal and, if necessary, a further debate in relation to the Turn Off the Red Light campaign? Today Bank of Ireland announced that it had repossessed just over 300 homes from their owners in the first half of this year and another 300, there or thereabouts, buy-to-let properties. It is a matter of urgency that while...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ----- and the 4.7% growth announced yesterday, there are many people who are not feeling the benefit of this uplift whatsoever. Many of those people who are at the coal face of repossession are perhaps the most vulnerable. There are those who have experienced homelessness as a result of having their homes repossessed. I ask that we have an urgent debate in this House on the issue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ----- on the mortgage market and some of the measures it has proposed -----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: No disrespect to the Senator, but there is a joint Oireachtas committee report on mortgage lending which was signed up to by all of the political parties involved in that committee, including that of the Senator. There are many excellent recommendations in that report and it deserves to be debated in this House. There are many issues that we would all agree, across the House, across party,...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: The code on mortgage arrears is set by the Central Bank, which is -----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Does the Senator have an issue with the truth?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I have asked -----

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I have asked the Leader for a debate on the joint Oireachtas committee's report on mortgage arrears and the recommendations that committee has made in relation to some serious changes that could be made both to the code of conduct on mortgage arrears and to setting up an independent service to assist all mortgagees - not just the ones from AIB and EBS but all mortgage holders - to get...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I would not be over time, if you do not mind, a Chathaoirligh, if I was not being constantly interrupted by my friend over there.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: It is a matter of critical importance for the future of third level education in this country and there is plenty of evidence that the south east is suffering economically. The presence of a third level institution would help.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: On a point of information.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: I have to totally object to what Senator Norris is saying.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: He is suggesting that women choose prostitution like they would choose to be an accountant.