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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: They are going to institutional investors in the US but they themselves are effectively working off borrowed money. They are not funds in the strictest sense of the word.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: My understanding is that this is not the case. I do not know how Mr. Hall would feel about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: It makes a difference because if an entity is a fund, it has a large amount of capital at its disposal. A pension fund is looking for turnover over a longer period. If an entity is borrowing money and buying loans on the basis of borrowed money-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am just making that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hall and Mr. Burgess will have had direct contact with people who have had their loans sold to vulture funds. Is their contact via an intermediary or with the fund itself? Does the fund lurk in the background, making the decisions, while the intermediary meets the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can Mr. Hall give an example of that? Does it happen over the phone or via email?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: What would be the position regarding a fund?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: If someone whose mortgage has been sold to Cerberus comes to talk to the IMHO, what does Mr. Hall do? Can he walk us through it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Hall pick up the phone and ring the fund? Does he ring the intermediary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hall has contact within the intermediary. He picks up the phone and tries to contact the funds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is it legal to make contact with the loan owner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Do any of the loan owners get back to Mr. Hall once contact is made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hall can continue to walk us through it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hall seeks to meet with the client. What happens at those meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Who attends the meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Are the funds ever represented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Never.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Do the intermediary companies ever say that they have to consult head office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: What happens then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Do the intermediaries say that the funds make the ultimate decisions?