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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: A question, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: We will be concluding this section in 20 minutes. That is why the Deputy is under pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy has made his point. He needs to ask a question to get an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Mathews should speak through the Chair at all times. The Minister should respond briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I need to move matters on so I ask Deputy Stanley to allow the Minister to answer and I will bring the Deputy back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: If Deputy Mathews wishes to comment, he should speak through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy wishes to speak in this committee, he must speak through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I would advise the Minister to do the same and speak through the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will ask Deputy Mathews to leave if he will not be quiet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will not use it on this occasion but I might use it on a future one. I call Deputy Stanley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I might make an interjection at this point. Representatives of AIB and Bank of Ireland will appear before the committee on 31 October and 1 November. I am sure all members will be asking why the banks have not become more proactive particularly in light of the forthcoming insolvency legislation, which will lay out the landscape as to how insolvency measures are being dealt with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but they will be back next week. That is the elephant in the room. Given that the legislation is coming down the tracks, why are the banks engaging in an ongoing issue of forbearance, particularly forbearance in circumstances where it is not doing the householder any good? We should put those questions to the representatives of the banks when they appear before the committee. As the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy keeps interjecting across the Chair, we will be very tight on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Is it agreed to publish the Minister's opening statement? Agreed. I understand the Minister needs to be in the Seanad later this afternoon and, therefore, we need to conclude at 3.45 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose that members make a two minute opening statement, at which point I will cut them off. I will then press them to move on to questions. As the Minister said, today's focus is the review of the Votes as opposed to the broader work of the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: No. 6 pertains to the 2013 allocations for public expenditure, Finance Vote group. I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. I advise members that a briefing paper has been prepared as part of today's presentation. I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery that all mobile phones must be switched off and if phones are not switched off, I will ask those to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme (17 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households that have availed of the mortgage to rent scheme; the number of properties that have been considered by each participating bank; the number that have been approved by each bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45143/12]

Topical Issue Debate: National Asset Management Agency (16 Oct 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister of State for her explicit response. Often, what we get are scripted responses to Topical Issues. It is obvious this evening that the Minister of State has given her attention to the issue I have raised. The Minister of State referred to the 80:20 scheme introduced by NAMA, which is a welcome development that allows people to purchase a home at 80% of its value and...