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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: How do the fiscal councils suggest that we tackle that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council calling on the Government to stop categorising areas of expenditure such as temporary, non-core and windfall?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Has the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council had discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on the classification of core, non-core and windfall capitals?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Did the council meet the Department?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Professor McMahon referred to expenditure on health and that we are lower than the EU median in what we spent on health.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That was our health infrastructure.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: When we measure health spend part of the problem, no more than when we compare year-on-year, is that we look at the spend on health in other European countries and when we look here we are including private healthcare spend. Is it any wonder people are confused by what exactly one has spent? Is it possible to get a spend figure for public healthcare?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Honohan for his statement and for the questions he asked, which will be usefully put to the Central Bank. What type of reform to consumer protection law is necessary to protect consumers in the light of the new credit services directive? Some 80,000 people are now paying up to 10% to vulture funds on their primary dwellings. Some 15% of home loans are already in that space....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Once the directive is transposed, will it provide for the outsourcing of debt collection and enforcement of security that could involve eviction proceedings and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: We are speaking about people's homes. When people have paid off their mortgages and they want to get their deeds back, where do they get the deeds from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is a very serious matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Some people watching are looking at 10%-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: They cannot afford to pay their mortgages and as we go down the line, they are in danger of losing their homes. Where are the deeds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: To get it clear in my own head, if you have paid off your mortgage to a vulture fund and want to use your house as collateral to lever credit or whatever, what do you have to prove that the house is yours?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. You obviously have to produce something to say-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: So what then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: But you are at its behest to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: And is Mr. Honohan saying they could be anywhere in the world?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I will move on because I am conscious of my time. Is this an issue that is faced by all member states? Have other EU states attempted to resolve the issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Rose Conway-Walsh: No. On that, to make it relevant to those most impacted by it, what difference would that make to the homeowner here?