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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not enough by a long mile. From the bank’s point of view, given the Government’s strategy to resolve the serious housing crisis appears to be to beg the banks to start lending again-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what you just said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Spring and the Government are relying on the banks and the private sector to fill this enormous gap in the construction of housing units. Given his own caution about getting back into this market again, does Mr. Brown believe realistically that the banks, collectively, are going to provide the sort of finance that will fill the enormous gap in housing construction that is needed at...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not pursue it further. However, I draw from that response that given everything that happened, if other banks are likely to have a similar concern about going down that road again, the current housing crisis will not be resolved - at least alone - by the finance that might be provided by the banking system in this country and that we are going to have to look elsewhere. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking Mr. Brown if he would sell them to somebody-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a policy, Mr. Brown seems to be saying "No". I just want clarification. Can he envisage a situation where he would sell them to somebody who had controlling shares in other companies that owed his bank huge sums of money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for missing the earlier session but I had to be at another committee meeting. I am sure many of the issues regarding variable rates and so on have been discussed. Mr. Boucher will be aware that the events around Siteserv have dominated media debate over the last week or two. That has opened up a debate around big write-downs on commercial loans. The figure the Minister is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Mr. Boucher saying that - I am not unsympathetic to him in this regard if that is what he is saying- under no circumstances could he envisage a situation where somebody owed Bank of Ireland €150 million and €110 million would be written down to keep them in business?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Boucher may not answer this, but did he have some involvement, along with other banks, in the write-down given to Independent News and Media?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So Mr. Boucher took equity in the bank as-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Was that of about €100 million?
- Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the moving of the writ for the by-election in Carlow-Kilkenny. I particularly welcome the fact that the People Before Profit Alliance will have a dynamic candidate, Adrienne Wallace, a recent graduate who is now working in Carlow. She typifies the new generation of people who have come into politics largely as a result of the complete failure of the political establishment and...
- Carlow-Kilkenny By-election: Issue of Writ (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not talking about Deputy Ann Phelan. There is a need to have mechanisms to make people accountable and replace them when they fail to honour political promises they made. That is the feeling that drove hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets in recent times, as well as the unprecedented entry into politics of new layers of people demanding political change. As a young...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has to be dissolved.
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very serious about this. There is a rebellion taking place in Dún Laoghaire. A public meeting this week was packed. There is overwhelming anger against this plan. Save Our Seafront, a group in which I am involved is having another meeting tomorrow which, I think, will be absolutely packed. Protests will almost certainly follow because of extraordinary anger at the fact that it...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interests of democracy and in the best interests of this important amenity and the Dún Laoghaire area generally, we should dissolve the harbour board and bring it under direct public control where there is real accountability and genuine public input into the plans to develop and protect this harbour as a unique public amenity.
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Should I take the Minister to a meeting?
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because I am annoyed.
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in his upcoming Harbours (Amendment) Bill for ports of regional significance, he plans references to "the council" to mean the executives of the relevant council or the elected members of that council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16513/15]
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (29 Apr 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 2011 when I was elected to this Dáil I have posed dozens of questions to the Minister and his predecessor about what I believe to be the gross mismanagement that is going on in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. I have raised the enormous waste of money on crazy, madcap plans that nobody ever asked for, the latest of which is a plan to mortgage the assets of the harbour to raise...