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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We need the ATM the next day. Rapid action is what we go for in here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Do not encourage me, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: As with the previous groups that we have had before us today, my only comment is that the banks should not forget the customers. PTSB must ensure that the bank has, at all times, the customers' interests first and foremost. That particular interest is what keeps the banking system, and every business, going. There is a tendency nowadays to become less personal in all businesses. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Mr. Crowley. The last point before I close the meeting relates to another advertisement. We had an ATM in this House, as colleagues know, and it disappeared during the Covid lockdown. That was a great time to justify the disappearance of such a facility because no customers were allowed anywhere near the place at the time. As I have said to previous witnesses before the committee,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Excellent. I thank the witnesses and members for their engagement. The committee will meet in private session at 12.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 September and in public session at 1.30 p.m. on that day with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, to further discuss the topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Somebody usually pushes a decision of that magnitude. Who pushed it? Was it pushed by the board, by Dr. Hunt or by somebody else?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We did not go through that question previously.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their statements. It is no harm to ponder what happened over the past couple of years and the advice we politicians got. We were regularly told there was no need for a rainy day fund, for example. We did not have a substantial rainy day fund but we did have borrowing capacity, which we would not have had if we had diverted our energies in a different...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: In conclusion, the Chair will be glad that I have said what I intended to say. If there is more to be said at a later stage, I will be glad to say it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: I thank our guests for coming before the committee and for their presentations. I have a number of questions. The witnesses from the NERI mentioned tax cuts and their effect. This is an issue on which a debate is taking place in the country at present. The theory is that there should be no tax cuts. I do not think this applies to all sectors. There are groups of people, in the lower to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Some things remain the same though.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: It works though.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Bernard Durkan: No.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Jul 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he hopes to mitigate carbon reduction requirements by way of enhanced sequestration thereby ensuring the viability of the agri-food sector while at the same time meeting carbon reduction targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38477/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 67. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the cost of farm inputs including fuel and fertilisers with a view to identifying the best way to meet the challenges of issues arising from the war in the Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38478/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects the various schemes offered by her Department to be available to urban or rural communities in a manner which can best address the needs of the respective communities on an ongoing basis in the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34899/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which she expects to be in a position to interact with various urban and rural communities throughout the country in the context of the various schemes offered by her Department with a view to ensuring maximum beneficial impact as required in order to meet insofar as is possible the various urban or rural...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Jul 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which housing availability to the local authority under part 5 procedure continues to be made available to Kildare County Council or approved housing bodies, the extent to which this is impacting on the number on the local authority housing waiting list; the extent to which regulations affecting their...