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Seanad: Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the report of the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck screening programme. I compliment Dr. Scally on the report. The most important people in this are the women themselves. My main concern was to wait and see how the women who have been impacted upon felt about the report. I listened intently to my neighbour Vicky Phelan, to Stephen Teap and to others. They welcomed the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, to the House and thank him for taking this important debate. I have already spoken to the Minister of State on the matter. In Limerick, we have an issue in the Caherconlish, Ballyneety, Donaghmore and Fedamore area, which is outside Limerick city. Students of the local school, John the Baptist community school in Hospital, are unable to get...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can we speak here?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Transport (19 Sep 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have a very specific question about St. John the Baptist school and hospital in County Limerick and about the Caherconlish, Ballyneety, Donaghmore and Fedamore areas.In my view, these concessionaries should be eligible because as we have a common applications system in the city, many of them will not be eligible for those schools anyway. Their local school is St. John the Baptist. An...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: This matter concerns the need for the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the next step for the construction of a new state-of-the-art school building for Mungret community college, Mungret, County Limerick. Mungret community college was established in August 2017 as a new school for the Mungret, Raheen and Dooradoyle areas. It is under the principalship of Liam...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State for that update. I very much welcome that the service level agreement was issued to Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board on 5 July. I have no doubt it will wing its way back to the Department very quickly and allow it to appoint the design team. I commend the school, its principal, Liam O'Mahoney, chairman of the board, Councillor Daniel Butler and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State. I will keep an eye on these matters to ensure the building of Mungret Community College and the acquisition of the site on the Mungret Park grounds from Limerick City and County Council proceed as quickly as possible. This is a tremendous addition to the educational fabric of Limerick and the Mungret, Dooradoyle and Raheen area. It is something parents...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: He has Limerick connections.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I join with Senator Rose Conway-Walsh in her congratulations to Harry Kane. His grandmother was from Caherconlish and Caherline. In what might be a good omen for Limerick hurling, his great-great-grandfather was a member of the first all-Ireland hurling team for Limerick in 1897, so that could augur well for Limerick in the hurling final this year.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: My own grandmother is from Caherconlish.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: On a more serious matter, the weather is an issue for farmers in Limerick. Extremes of weather are very difficult for farmers and agriculture is a huge element of our industrial and business base. We had extremes of rain not long ago and we now have extremes of sunshine. Many farmers are being forced to do their second cut of silage now because the grass is burning up. While I know time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Ms McDonagh and her colleagues. On tracker mortgages, I recently received a specific query from a constituent of mine who was deemed by Bank of Ireland not to have been impacted on by the tracker mortgage issue. In 2014 he went to the Financial Services Ombudsman and is now being told that he should go to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, but the Financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: The case was heard in 2014 and a decision was made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: This may be a matter for further investigation by the committee because there is a lacuna such that a person took a case in 2014, prior to the real tracker issue being identified. There may have been a change in how his claim would have been treated. The committee may wish to approach the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Ms McDonagh. Regarding the issue of housing supply, Ms McDonagh stated that the bank had currently funded construction of almost 3,000 residential units and 1,700 student accommodation beds. I am interested in the first figure. Are those units based predominantly in Dublin or throughout the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is generally agreed that we need to be building approximately 30,000 housing units per annum. The 3,000 figure is 10% of that demand, yet Bank of Ireland is saying that it accounts for 50% of all new lending. Is it fair or unfair to say that that seems to be a relatively low level of lending for the building of houses at a time when we have a major supply issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am based in Limerick. Anecdotally, many housing developments are being financed by what are termed "the funds". Ms McDonagh can call them what she wants, but they are funds, not banks. I would like to see more housing developments being funded by banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is not healthy for the market that funds are so dominant in the financing of house building. I have seen many developers. It is generally felt that only a handful are being funded by banks. Does Ms McDonagh regard the 40% equity figure that her bank is seeking as conservative? She has not been able to give details about the level of refusals. Has Bank of Ireland a targeted level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is much lower than the bank's overall market share of 50%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Obviously, it is risk based. Does the bank have a target for residential lending in 2018?