Results 8,061-8,080 of 26,711 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (22 May 2018)
John McGuinness: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been approved by the HSE for structural improvement works at a centre (details supplied); if a nurse will be appointed to assist at the centre; and if the matter will be expedited [22131/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2018)
John McGuinness: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if a MARS MRI scan will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22130/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: We are now in public session. We will go into private session to deal with a number of matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: We are now back in public session. I welcome Dr. Martha O'Hagan-Luff and Mr. Brendan Burgess to the meeting. We will be joined later by Mr. David Hall. We had intended to have three separate sessions for each submission but maybe it can be done in one session. We will leave an opening statement to be made by each witness. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l)...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I apologise to Mr. David Hall. Things changed a bit this morning. Dr. O'Hagan-Luff has just concluded her opening statement. We will now hear the opening statement from Mr. Burgess. We will then go to Mr. Hall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: The Senator should let the witness walk us through the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I must ask the Senator to conclude. To whom is he addressing his questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: We will write to the Central Bank.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I will return to Mr. Hall's opening statement. He said that this situation could lead to 17,000 families being evicted unless an alternative is arranged. In discussing this with the banks, I asked them about iCare, how they are interacting with it, whether it is a solution and are they co-operating. Will Mr. Hall give us an idea of the success -or otherwise - of iCare? Will he also...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: What else needs to be done? I ask the question because Mr. Hall says 17,000 families may be evicted, and that the number is growing. I read in an article in one newspaper last weekend that €15 billion would be the total value of mortgages being sold to vulture funds by the banks because of the action of ACC Loan Management and others. What will save these families from repossession?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Has Mr. Hall made that clear to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and the Department of Finance? Has he engaged with officials from those two Departments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Does the 31,500 households Mr. Hall mentioned in his opening statement that cannot pay include the 17,000 households he mentioned at the end?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: What is stopping the banks from drilling down into these loans?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: They tell us they have hundreds of staff in each of the banks working on this yet none of the banks offers debt-for-equity solutions, which Mr. Hall mentioned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Wait a second, Mr. Burgess.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: There is a phone somewhere on the desk and it is interfering with the recording system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Burgess want to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Essentially, the banks do not drill down hard enough and strongly enough to find a resolution. They do not fully deal with the range of possibilities of resolution and options that are available.