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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This committee and Committee on Budgetary Oversight passed a motion seeking the development of a banking forum in which all the stakeholders in the sector would participate to explore how we can fix some of the dysfunction in the market. Would Mr. Crowley's bank be happy to participate in that forum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Over the years, I have done a lot of work for people in mortgage distress. I noticed that PTSB has sold many mortgages to investment funds, such as Pepper, for example. Is that still happening? If so, at what volumes is that occurring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Were any mortgages sold in 2020 to investment funds such as Pepper?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Turning to the general market, PTSB in March reported a loss of €166 million. I think that occurred because the bank set aside €155 million against possible loan defaults. Have we information regarding those loan defaults materialising, because that would serve to give us a picture of what is happening with small and medium-sized businesses in the economy now? Has that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: We hear regularly that one of the reasons small to medium-sized Irish builders cannot build at the moment is the lack of credit. In other words, the credit structure does not suit their building model and as a result international investment funds come in and soak up that market to a certain extent. What is the witnesses' experience of that? Why is there a problem with the credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: My final question relates to questions that were already asked. Is this not a poor time to sell banking shares, given what is happening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Sin sin. Míle buíochas as na freagraí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Therefore, that €155 million has not yet been consumed.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand an amendment has been sent into the office.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: My apologies. I will check that and revert to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. We will sort that out. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I am very happy to-----

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I would be very happy to furnish an amendment to both my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly, and yourself, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I will resolve that. Thank you.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún seo. I hope the parties will support the Aontú amendment to ensure convergence between the pension ages in the North and South of Ireland. At the moment there is a difficulty with regard to the pension in the North of Ireland. It is symptomatic of the two-tier Ireland in which we live that when it comes to retirement, there is one rule for the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: This issue is not just going to last for two weeks. Even when pubs open for indoor service around 5 July, we will have a situation where many people will not want to go indoors to eat and drink. We will also have a situation where capacity indoors will be less and, therefore, pubs and restaurants will need extra capacity outside. This issue is going to last right through the whole summer....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government's mismanagement of the hospitality sector has been a car crash. The collateral damage has affected many pubs and restaurants, some of which have now been closed for 420 days. No other country in Europe has closed hospitality for so long. In research I have done today, I can find no other European country where indoor dining in restaurants is closed. Denmark and Finland had...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (22 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 83. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports that are available to homeowners in Gaeltacht regions, that is, mná tí whose primary incomes are from working during the summer months as host families for students who move to the Gaeltacht to improve their Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33238/21]