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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: It is approximately 1.3% of the total.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Okay. I am clear on that. I will not bring any particularly new information before the committee. I will pick up on points raised by Deputies Doherty and Tóibín. Deputy Doherty asked about the number of those 1,900 write-downs of 90% or more that were for people who owed €1 million or more, and Deputy Tóibín asked what the total amount of debt written down was....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: It seems reasonable to me that as the 2022 accounts are down to the wire, the finalised data for 2022 would seem not to be available. I presume that the information for the period 2015-21 would and should be available both for the number of write-downs in cases worth more than €1 million, and the total amount for those years. Mr. O'Keeffe has said, "we do not disclose that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: In which case, does it remain a commercial secret or is the information to be disclosed, or ever to be disclosed, to the public by a publicly-owned bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the clarification and he is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Yes, but I would still like to have the information and I will come back to this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: That was the first part of my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: The information is out there. As AIB will be aware, I did not collate the information. What is the total write-down for the years 2015-21?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I think Mr. O'Keeffe was going to say it was a huge number but, yes, it is a significant number. The second part of my question was on the subset of 1,900 cases, which is not disclosed today. Is it not disclosed today because the matter is commercially sensitive or the bank has not calculated the total for the subset as of yet? To me, the latter would seem strange given that there has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: For the record, I believe that the information should be given to the committee today as to what is the total sum for the 90%. The bank has the figure, the bank is a publicly-owned bank yet it has chosen not to disclose the information to the committee today and I feel that it should disclose. I hear what Mr. O'Keeffe has said about the bank giving serious consideration to disclosing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: I know. The whole public speculation for the last ten days has been on whether there is one rule for higher socioeconomic categories and another rule for people who are not. A breakdown between the categories of developers, farmers and workers who have lost their jobs, etc. is available to the bank but that data has not been brought to this meeting. I believe that the information should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: All I will say in response is that I think it would be useful and would assist the discourse around this subject if that breakdown could be provided within a reasonably short period. It does not have to be tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Debt Write-down and Debt Resolution Policies: Allied Irish Banks (2 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [9975/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Next week will be the 100th anniversary of four massacres that took place during the Civil War in County Kerry. The first was carried out by anti-treaty IRA troops at Knocknagashel on 6 March resulting in five people dead. The other three were carried out by the Free State Army at Ballyseedy, Killarney and near Cahirsiveen on 7, 8 and 12 March. In total, 17 prisoners of the Free State were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [9974/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: When the film "La Haine" was released, then French Prime Minister, Alain Juppé, organised a special screening and instructed his cabinet to attend so that they might learn something about alienation in the Parisian suburbs. Will the Taoiseach organise a special screening for his Cabinet of the new film documentary, "406 Days", which premieres at the Dublin International Film Festival...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (1 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 to ensure local authorities are obliged to reserve land for allotments and community gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10406/23]

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: I want to pick up on the point at which Deputy Smith left off. More than 500 paramedics in the National Ambulance Service have chosen to join the National Ambulance Service Representative Association to represent them. NASRA is a branch of the Psychiatric Nurses Association, the PNA, which is a recognised trade union with a negotiating licence. The HSE continues to refuse to recognise...