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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Okay. Some of the correspondence we have received indicates to us that customers of AIB feel they are being excluded from consideration, but they are taking comfort from the fact that one of the examples gives them a reason to be considered. When we have this difference of opinion, who adjudicates on it within the bank? Is it a high-level-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: By the time individual customers get to the end of all of these options, do many still feel they have been shortchanged, for want of a better word?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: This is within the bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I understand that, but the process is there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Customers exhaust all of this and then they can go-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: How limited is the bank in terms of its view on this? Is it flexible? Does it give every aspect of these individual cases every hearing that is possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: At what level in the bank are these decisions made? Is there a group that oversees all of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I want to go back to a point made by Deputy Doherty. While not wishing to get into who did it, I want to explore something in which I am interested, namely, the idea of risk managers. I have put this to Bank of Ireland. Is the risk manager in the bank, who has the obligation under legislation to report to the Central Bank, one person or is it a number of risk managers who inform Mr. Byrne?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: It is all rolled into one role, the chief risk manager.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The legislation and the obligation around anything that might have to be reported then kicks in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Way back when all this happened, or even when the tracker issue occurred, would that have come up through this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: This is not to point the finger. I just want to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: In view of that reply from Mr. O'Keeffe and the question asked by Senator O'Donnell, we might send on to the witnesses some of the questions around that issue that have been raised with us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The witnesses answered them in the context of the individual contract and circumstances but to get clarity on the set of questions that were sent to the committee members, we might send them on to the bank. My understanding is that we can send them to the bank, which generally deals with the correspondence we send on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes, so we will send them on to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The witnesses might deal with them as far as is possible. They have got back to us on a number of occasions in regard to issues, and we thank them for that. I thank Mr. Byrne and his colleagues. The meeting is adjourned until 9.45 a.m. on Thursday, 28 September.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if additional costs caused by decision of Government, local or government agencies will be directly funded by Government in such areas as the nursing home sector in which contracts and price are controlled by the HSE; if an economic impact analysis has been undertaken by his Department or the HSE relative to the negative impact these increased costs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 271. To ask the Minister for Health further to a public statement issued by the HSE on 27 April 2017 regarding respite services in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, the progress made on each project and the level of funding provided; the general respite services provided in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to parents of children with disabilities, including overnight services; if an organisation...