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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (27 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...trying to pull a scam or steal an identity on the Internet, to be sitting in one of these public hearings where the person discloses all sorts of private financial information. To what extent does a privacy issue arise? For those 50 or 60 cases do the Revenue Commissioners really require this type of power, which seriously invades privacy, to do their job properly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (27 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...what the delegation has gathered from its consultations, we know nothing about what is going on, not even the number of cases or their value. There is limited publication of determinations, which does not help in giving any guidance. However, now everything is going to be in public and it will all be in the public domain. Is there no better way to achieve the kind of knowledge the...

Seanad: Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (22 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...and behavioural factors and policies which impacted on or contributed to the crisis and the preventative reforms implemented in the wake of that crisis. There is no party in this House that does not want the inquiry to have the maximum powers possible to allow it to reach a satisfactory conclusion. This is a technical Bill amending legislation in place since 1942 which will allow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Government Procurement (21 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...school? The reason I raise this is because I have come across situations in which people have been providing management consultancy services and have been asked for public liability insurance of €6.5 million. Does Mr. Quinn know how much it costs to procure public liability insurance of €6.5 million? I know from reading the guidance notes that those tendering for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Government Procurement (21 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...Mr. Quinn's point in section 6 that those who considered tendering could obtain advice but from my experience I suspect that what is happening is that the one size fits all is in the public domain but it does not fit all. It certainly does not fit small, sole traders or very small companies trying to bid for contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Government Procurement (21 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: Does Mr. Quinn know how much it costs to get that type of insurance?

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ...s about Mr. Sam Blanckensee legally existing in the Irish State. I am an active participant in my community; I'm a scouter and a student leader. But in the eyes of my state, the man I have become doesn't exist.I do not think anybody could put it better. It has already been said, but needs to be repeated, that Ireland is the only country in the EU which has no provision for legal gender...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: ..., I have to be honest and say it would not answer many of the criticisms that have been made about this move. Overall, the use of loan-to-value ratios in this way is a very blunt instrument that does not take into account the affordability of the mortgage for the individual concerned. I accept that the Central Bank is independent and that this is being done in the interests of having a...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...Crisis Centre has managed to raise €1 million from donations to buy the building but there is still a shortfall of €800,000. The centre is very much dependent on its State grant but that grant does not cover the cost of renting accommodation. As every woman will know, the Rape Crisis Centre is a front-line organisation that protects women at the most vulnerable time of their...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...live in rented accommodation and that number will increase in the future. There are too many loopholes in the current legislation allowing for people to be economically evicted. The legislation does not allow for reasonable rent increases and does not allow tenants to make their homes in the rented sector. We cannot ask people to make their homes in the rented sector with a regulatory...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...to be provided for others living close to them in other forms of housing such as a three bedroom semi-detached house. There is an element of unfairness in the way this is structured in that it does not take into account the fact that 78% of the properties built in Dublin between 2002 and 2007 were apartment developments. We have never really come to terms with how we treat apartment...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...only. It is extending to other large urban areas. I would like to have a debate in the House on the issue of rent regulation. As long as rents continue to rise, no matter what the Government does, we will see people being pushed out of their homes because they simply cannot afford to remain within them. I ask for a debate to be held as early as possible in the new year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Through the Chair, I am not finished. There is a Dáil vote. Deputy Mathews did not get an opportunity. Does he wish to speak?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Does that not come to my point? They buy the asset, as Ms Murphy puts it, with a view to moving it on when the economic circumstances improve. Like I say, the market is improving so house prices are rising. The difficulty here is that the asset is my home. Their profit lies in turning over my home which boils down to getting it out of my possession and onto the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of Sale of Loan Books to Unregulated Third Parties Bill 2014: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...interest rates? An entity that buys a loan book might decide, for whatever reason, to vary the terms of interest on some of the better-performing loans to beef up the return on the books. There does not seem to be any prohibition on doing that, in spite of Miller, which is under appeal. That is my first question. My second question is one that many people ask. Why would a bank want...

Seanad: Homelessness: Statements (3 Dec 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...but a significant amount of it is due to the fact that people simply cannot access housing at those rent supplement limits. I ask the Minister to ring-fence rent supplement, ensure that every penny in rent supplement stays in rent supplement and does not go into anybody else’s budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: Does the witness accept that we will have a problem with people in insecure employment even trying to access mortgage finance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...have stimulated supply. Some of the witnesses appear to disagree with this. To what extent do they accept that a mortgage insurance scheme would improve supply? The Governor indicated that he does not think access to credit creates greater equality. I am not convinced that is so. If one considers, for example, the type of finance available to people on lower incomes through the local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Insurance Schemes: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: That does not necessarily mean that his company will work with all of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: AIB (13 Nov 2014)

Aideen Hayden: ...have not. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell's point which was based on the figures and statistics to which he alluded and which he made cogently was that there was not enough competition in the market. Does Mr. Duffy believe that is a fair comment?