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Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: This a great prologue.

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: This is a novel, not a short story.

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Gerry Horkan is following the Sinn Féin model with his message.

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Drive on, Gerry, drive on.

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. In the relatively short time available to me, I wish to speak about the principles underpinning the budget. This budget is very much based on the themes of the previous two budgets. First, it is about ensuring that we are managing the public finances in a sound manner. In that context, we will have a budget surplus next year and are bringing...

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: What was the figure the Minister of State gave?

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: In both.

Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: The increase in capital expenditure is €460 million.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to raise this important matter and I thank the Minister for taking the time to come here to deal with it. This issue, which is already in the public domain, arises out of the judgment in the case of Rebecca Carter. Ms Carter took proceedings in the High Court to ensure that she did not lose out on a place in veterinary college owing to a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is that for the current year?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is welcome.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister and I welcome the change by UCD. There would appear to be-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: -----enough scope in the rectification rules, which the SEC applies, that it should be able to deal with the entire script on totting numerical errors. When does the Minister anticipate that the SEC and the third level institutions will conclude their deliberations and advise him of the changes that will be implemented? When does he anticipate that we will have a definitive outcome so that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: State Examinations Reviews (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: What does the Minister anticipate the timeframe to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I apologise for being late. This study was about the culture in the banks and how they dealt with customers. How many consumers or customers were interviewed for the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: We have limited time. I and my colleagues are dealing with customers and constituents who still believe they are being very badly treated by the banks and that nothing has changed. I am a believer in primary research, which is going back to the consumer. In terms of both the tracker report and this culture report, did the researchers engage directly in interviews with customers of the banks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: How can the witnesses stand over a report when the very people that the report is about were not interviewed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am just looking at it this way. The researchers undertook 1,400 hours of desktop reviews, ran more than 500 surveys and conducted 75 interviews. If none of those was with consumers, I as a public representative have to ask the question. Before we came in here today, I got a phone call from a customer of one of the banks who knew the witnesses would be appearing before the committee and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Am I correct in saying that of the 1,400 hours of desktop reviews, all the surveys and all the interviews, none was with bank customers? Who were they with?