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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is it proposed that we write to the Minister and ask for this information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is Deputy Dooley happy to withdraw his motion if we request this information from the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: There is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Nobody is talking about withholding information from the committee. It is simply that there is a slight difference between Deputy Dooley's motion and the suggestion put forward by Deputy Humphreys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is that fair enough?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I thank the Deputy. I might ask Deputy Kevin Humphreys to make some remarks on his motion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Very good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (11 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: The committee secretariat has received a motion from Deputy Timmy Dooley concerning the Department of Finance briefing of members of this committee on macroeconomic forecasts, as will be the case for the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, in advance of the budget. I will now call on Deputy Dooley to speak on his motion and will then call on Deputy Kevin Humphreys to respond, as the latter has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I thank Mr. Duffy and his team for being available for the entire afternoon. They were very forthright in answering our questions, which is always appreciated by the committee. We look forward to receiving the additional information they have promised to submit. There being no other business, the meeting will now adjourn until 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I have one question. I may have misunderstood Mr. O'Connor when I made that contribution earlier on. He said that he expects that there would be significant write-downs in the order of hundreds of millions of euro coming from the bank in the next 12 months because he feels all the things are in place to start making significant write-downs and to start dealing properly with mortgage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: If the Chairman stays here, I will go on instead of him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: That is the point that must get out there - Mr. Duffy must get it out there and we will try to get it out there - because there is no engagement because customers simply feel that there is nothing happening. There are many excuses and they merely do not feel that there is anything happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: Is Mr. Duffy saying that when all of this is sorted out, if he came back to this committee in 12 months' time he would be talking about the write-downs in the hundreds of millions of euro?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: The general perception is the banks are not very helpful to people with distressed mortgages. This reflects the frustration members are encountering and I am sure the witnesses are picking up on that frustration at this meeting. Members have heard repeatedly that everything is moving too slowly. In the conversation on this issue in recent years, people have heard about moral hazard and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I ask Deputy Mathews not to interrupt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Liam Twomey: I will ask Deputy Mathews to leave the meeting if he continues to interrupt.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: Are some of the OECD recommendations more suitable for larger economies than smaller ones?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I have one final question. Why does Mr. Saint-Amans think this issue has become such a major one now, given that many of the taxation issues and multinationals' corporation policies would not have changed dramatically in the last few years? What does he think has currently brought this matter to such prominence?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I wish to thank Mr. Saint-Amans. I have other questions for him but unfortunately I have run out of time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Liam Twomey: I welcome Mr. Saint-Amans. It is important that we put on record time and again that he is quite clear that Ireland is not a tax haven, and that we show that Ireland is active within the OECD. We must give credence to much of the good work done during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in moving taxation issues forward. It is also important that Mr. Saint-Amans...