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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: They go into the forbearance process and come out of it. The bank has repossessed 173 homes and there are 130 homes over which it has unexecuted possession orders. There are about 400 in that respect. In that reduction of 600, there are 400 over which the bank has repossession orders and it has executed that order in respect of some of them. Is that included in those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Does the reduction of just over 600 who are 90 days in arrears include the 400 repossession orders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: If the bank has a repossession order for a customer's home, does it still keep that customer in the 90 days arrears category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: We have noted that the take-up of split mortgages is very low. The bank has offered them in 17 cases in the buy-to-let category and 81 in the principal private dwelling homes category.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: How are they working out? The terms and conditions that Bank of Ireland is offering are considerably different from those being offered by the other banks, making them apparently less attractive. Will there be a problem in the future with a large interest bill being racked up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Mr. Boucher said that it is not the bank's policy to offer write-downs and he used language like that. How many Bank of Ireland customers have received a reduction in capital or a write-off of arrears in the past year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Mr. Boucher does not have a policy but I ask him again how many have received-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: I would have to draw some conclusions from the statement Mr. Boucher has made that maybe some people are getting them and that he does not want this to be revealed publicly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: For all the good news to which our guests referred - including the reduction in arrears - the bottom line appears to be that approximately one third of private dwelling house owners whose mortgages are in arrears are subject to legal proceedings or to the threat thereof from the bank at present. In addition, almost half of those with buy-to-let properties who are in arrears are involved in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Bank of Ireland (10 Apr 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Mr. Boucher can blame customers all he wants but the bank has offered 3,942 so-called solutions in respect of private dwelling houses. Of these, some 3,478 are in legal proceedings. It seems that if one is a customer of Bank of Ireland, one almost has an equal chance of being in legal proceedings or obtaining a solution. What are the criteria that are applied? Is Mr. Boucher stating that...

Seanad: Beef Industry: Motion (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: I move: That Seanad Éireann--notes: - the collapse in beef prices over the past number of months; - the refusal of processors to slaughter bulls throughout the country; - the changing of carcass specifications by processors mid-way through the production cycle; - the use of labelling issues as a barrier to free trade between the Republic of Ireland and the UK; - the severe impact the...

Seanad: Beef Industry: Motion (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: I am referring to farmers who I have met or know and who are suffering because of these issues. The Minister made a rebuttal on a specific farming issue, but I am not making a point about agriculture in general. The Minister keeps citing the CSO statistics - we would like them to be verified - on 30,000 new jobs being created in the sector, but there is a major crisis and the Minister's...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Ba mhaith liomsa freisin mo chomhbhrón a chur in iúl do chlann an iar Sheanadóir, Jimmy Mulroy. Tá áthas orm go bhfuil muid go léir tagtha le chéile inniu chun cuimhneamh a dhéanamh ar an obair a rinne sé sa Seanad agus le linn a shaol. I welcome the family and pay tribute to Jimmy Mulroy both for his work in the Seanad and indeed for his entire...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Yes, on behalf of Senator Mark Daly.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: I am proposing it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: My proposal is that the Attorney General attend and be heard in the Seanad under Standing Order 56.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: I am proposing that amendment in respect of today's business.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Dermot Ahern passed more Bills than this Minister in the equivalent period.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: That inquiry cannot be set up until we approve it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

Thomas Byrne: Has the Senator got the political briefing notes?