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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That figure of 300 is relatively very small. Is that because this is the level of business the banks did, as a percentage, or is it that these banks were not as guilty and as involved with the scandal as the main banks seem to have been? Did these banks manage to not make the same mistakes as everybody else or was their volume of business much lower in the first place, which has resulted in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister. I have a final question on the new directors the Minister intends to appoint. These will be normal bank directors, presumably, and like other bank directors on the board, they will be there to represent the shareholders in line with normal corporate governance and to try to do their best for the bank and ultimately for the shareholder - in these cases we are a 71%...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does this suggest, in the context of AIB, that we would have an interest of around 71% of whatever the number of directors currently is? I accept there are executive and non-executive directors and other reasons people may be on boards, but will the number of directors on the boards be proportionate to our shareholding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Will the Minister clarify that these directors will be doing their best - as all directors are supposed to do - within the legislative process and within the law on behalf of the shareholders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, but they will be doing what all directors do, as opposed to being separate. There is no public interest status this time around and they will be doing what directors are supposed to do; looking after the company, on behalf of the shareholders and within the law.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 2 has been ruled out of order because of a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Slightly unusually, I ask Deputy Paddy Burke to take the Chair for a few minutes as I want to make a point.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 17, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “25.The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on the restoration of nursing and midwifery allowances by 1 July 2019 and not 1 October 2020.”. Section 23(2) of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017...
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister of State. Following his request, I will withdraw the amendment.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I move amendment No. 5:In page 19, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Early pension restoration for retired public servants 28.The Minister shall within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on restoring all public service pensions by 2019.”. This amendment relates to early pension restoration for...
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: I got so caught up in Senator Norris's contribution that I lost my train of thought.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator does sometimes. I thank the Minister of State for his response and I am withdrawing the amendment.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Senator Burke and I have indulged Senator Norris. This section deals with the superannuation provisions.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 7, in my own name, was ruled out of order. It is not relevant to the subject matter.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: As I am in the Chair I will not speak on behalf of my party but I thank all Members for the way we dealt with the business in an efficient manner this afternoon. I thank the Minister of State for his involvement.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: That is No. 6 on the Order Paper.
- Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)
Gerry Horkan: We can conclude No. 5 first.