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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: How many countries is KBC going through this process with at the moment? Is Ireland the first or has KBC done this in other countries? I mean where KBC is leaving a country and transferring to a national bank within that country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Will formal documentation be issued to KBC customers seeking their consent and confirmation of the transfer of funds from KBC to Bank of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: All right, so there is no requirement for a customer to give his or her consent to transfer funds to the Bank of Ireland. Online banking is great when it works but as sometimes one needs to talk to someone at the end of the phone, one does appreciate a relationship that one may have built up with one's bank over the years and know how to get in to touch. With the majority of banking being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Will the Bank of Ireland take over existing KBC hubs or locations?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: The committee is meeting to discuss the Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 that was referred to us by Order of the Dáil earlier today. I welcome the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to the meeting for this purpose. Members should note that the Dáil, when referring this Bill to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 1 is in the names of Deputies Thomas Pringle and Joan Collins. Amendments Nos. 1, 43 and 44 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 44 is in the name of Deputy McAuliffe.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Is the Deputy withdrawing amendment No. 44?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment Nos. 2 and 4 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Is the amendment being pressed?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 3, 9 and 37 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Would Deputy Ó Broin like to come in on amendment No. 9?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, and 51 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed to? Agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 51, in the name of Deputy O'Callaghan, is related to this.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: I need to interrupt because a vote has been called in the Dáil. I need to suspend the meeting.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: We will suspend the meeting until five minutes after the completion of the vote in the Dáil. Deputies Ó Broin and McAuliffe have indicated they wish to come back in so I will start with Deputy Ó Broin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Dec 2021)

Steven Matthews: We were discussing amendments Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 51, the Minister had responded and Deputy Ó Broin wished to come back in.