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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Are all of them based in Ireland or are there some abroad?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Another unfortunate legacy issue for AIB is the call centre experience. I know about this myself as I have tried to sort out cases for constituents, with AIB and other banks, and have experienced the problem. This is an opportunity for our leaders. They are going around with their heads in the clouds and do not understand the situation. This is why they do not argue the case for debt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am concerned in regard to valuations. All of the witnesses know as professionals that if a person has a four-bedroomed semi-detached house in the south Dublin suburbs and its rental value is €2,000 a month, the market value of that house, unless it comes from a Crombie wearing, clipboard holding loo-lah estate agent, is €360,000. How do we arrive at that? Well,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Please, I ask the Chair to allow me continue, out of decency and respect. Before I became a Member of the Oireachtas, I put a lot of work into this. The Chairman got a copy of that and it would help him understand this if he read it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am only looking for five minutes. How many minutes were given to other people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: When we were dealing with the IBRC legislation, I did not vote for it because I believed it was wrong to introduce it in that way, after midnight, without being understood by the 166 Members. The Chief Whip would not allow me a pair, which is a way of not voting. I texted the Taoiseach and told him I needed a pair, because that was not a time to be ejected from the party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have two questions. First, is it not true that mathematically and financially, some 72% of the asset price collapse can be attributed to AIB up to 2008?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I will give the analysis to Mr. Duffy. The funny thing is the banking inquiry is not yet on track and the balance sheets relevant to deciding what went wrong will have been lost or shredded in the mists of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The Chairman makes it tough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome all the representatives to the meeting. I wish to explain how and why I am here and why I am speaking now. I was ejected from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform as a result of a vote last July. It was a pity because I was one of the best attenders of the committee and I made many contributions. I want everyone to know this. The reason I am speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I have a paper here that I will leave with the committee. I preface my remarks by saying I take my hat off to these four gentlemen because they were not part of the bank boards, across the whole banking sector, that were not decent. I can say this safely because the figures and balance sheets show it. In the case of AIB, which was not part of its watch, its loan-to-deposit ratios for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am going to take advantage of this and speak to the gentlemen who are here. The Chairman can go and vote.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. It is appreciated. I like cordiality. I have a little paper the Minister might find helpful as a starting point for the banking inquiry.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I do not think the Minister was very fair in his remark to me. I am helping him on the starting point for the banking inquiry.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: The Minister took advantage of the Chamber to make a joke at me, not with me.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am an Independent. Did the Minister of State not notice?

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: As I am new, I am still learning. Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for pointing it out to me.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I am new.

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I welcome the Minister taking Leaders' Questions and the Order-----

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Peter Mathews: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I appreciate the reorientation course. I have just been at a funeral and I came in late. The Government's intention to hold a banking inquiry seems to have got clogged in a swamp and does not seem to be getting anywhere. Yesterday, today and tomorrow, the banks' chief executives and senior management teams are appearing before the committee to explain where...