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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Jan 2018)

Paddy Burke: I was thinking that the Governor would throw in the annual report but will the review he said the Central Bank would carry out look at issues like how many complaints were received by the Central Bank over the years relating to the tracker mortgage issue before it took any action? Will it look at issues like that in the report and publish it? Otherwise, we will not see the full value of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Jan 2018)

Paddy Burke: What I am asking, and this concerns the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as well, is whether the Central Bank will produce a report where it will lay bare how it handled this issue, whether it could have acted better, whether it should have acted sooner and how many consumers had to contact the Central Bank before it took any action. Did the Central Bank take action on the...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Paddy Burke: I congratulate the Leader of the House, Senator Buttimer, and Conchobhar and wish them well in their marriage. I wish also to be associated with the expressions of sympathy on the death of former Senator Maurice Hayes with whom I served in the House for ten years. He made some very valuable contributions in the House. I know the Leader will organise expressions of sympathy in the House at...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I want to ask about the restoration of pay in 2019 for public servants who are, as it is called, non-covered. What exactly is meant by "non-covered"? Is it people whose pay was not reduced? Is it new entrants? Is it people who had some but not all of their pay cut, as they did not come within the scope of the reductions to pay?

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: Can the Senator make the comments relevant to section 26?

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: Section 25 has been dealt with.

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I would like to ask the Minister of State about section 33. On the bottom of page 23 of the Bill it says:In the case of the year 2020, the contribution shall be payable—(a) by a relevant person who is a member of a standard accrual pension scheme as follows:(i) where the pensionable pay of the person in that year is less than or equal to €60,000. If pensionable earnings are...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I thank the Minister for introducing this legislation. This relates to the unwinding of FEMPI legislation and cuts that have been put in place since 2012. I welcome this legislation and hope we can restore full pay and pensions to the people who took many hits over the past ten years. It is well deserved for the people who took the cuts and made sacrifices for the whole nation. I...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Motion for Earlier Signature (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I move:That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.”

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I welcome Mr. Byrne and Ms Dooley and thank them for attending the meeting. Deputy Pearse Doherty said that the peak in those offshore accounts went up from €2.4 billion in 2008 to €2.8 billion by 2010. Would it be fair to say that at the time the banks would have been scrambling for deposits, the bank would have to get deposits from wherever it could and that it still kept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: Are all those deposits taken into account when calculating the capital ratios for the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: There is no grouping. Are they all separate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: They were all separate at that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: There was no obligation at that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: There is no grouping now either. Would that all be grouped together for the AIB group now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: Mr. Byrne said that the deposits declined sharply from 2010 to 2012. That money had to go somewhere. Did the bank have to advise the clients that they should move the money to a different account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: The sum of €2.8 billion is a sizeable amount of money.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: When does the Leader expect the Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 to come before the House? It proposes to set up a commission in place of the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO. It will have significant consequences for local authority members across the country, putting onerous obligations on them to comply with the law when it is introduced. The Bill will have to be examined...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: I welcome both the Minister of State to the House and this legislation. As we all know, going back to 2009, the FEMPI legislation was brought in for various reasons. Basically, the economy fell asunder and something had to be done. I compliment this Government and the two previous Governments on the enormous work they did to bring our public finances back to a position where we are...

Seanad: Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (12 Dec 2017)

Paddy Burke: And Senator McDowell's.