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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is strengthening the legislation against possible problems in the of transparency of accounts and clear, true and fair presentation of accounts. This improvement is welcome and I can see the logic of allowing for other accounting standards as long as they meet the criteria. It all seems reasonable enough. However, "true" and "fair" are vague terms. I assume there is more detail as to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is reasonable enough. From where is the Minister of State taking the definition of "true and fair"? What are we assessing it against?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us say somebody challenges a set of accounts and he or she says they are not true and fair, that the company is hiding things behind categories or under certain headings, which can happen. What standing does this term have? I can imagine the company might state it thinks the accounts are true and fair.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the section on authorisation.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This chapter enables the bank to authorise an ICAV which is not authorised under the UCITS regulations. A concern I expressed, which is my primary concern, is that this seems to be a mechanism to encourage activity in this area without appropriate regulation and that there is a lesser regulatory burden on these ICAVs than there might otherwise be. Given that it is lack of regulation in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be authorised as an ICAV-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because it does not have to go through the UCITS process.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has to be one or the other.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will flag my concern. I need to look into the UCITS regulations because one is flying blind in a situation like this one where one does not know how one compares to the other in terms of the level of regulatory burden and obligation. I am concerned, particularly when I look at some of the promotional material from KPMG, Ireland's first tailor-made corporate funds vehicle. Essentially, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12, and who acquired hepatitis C following a blood transfusion during an operation for a burst appendix carried out in St. James's Hospital on 11 November 1982, but for which the medical records for the operation have now disappeared, denying this person the documentary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 30 September 2014 if he will report on the multidisciplinary group established to progress the project to improve access to inpatient child and adolescent mental health service beds for children and adolescents in mental health services and, in particular, to ask if the aim of having 58 beds by year end is still...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report that was produced by one of her senior officials in February 2008 about a former employee (details supplied) in Dublin 6, which stated that she had been the subject of a written Garda complaint, when the gardaí have no record of this complaint; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the circumstances in which the chairman of the Public Appointments Service stepped down from that position from 31 August 2014, four months before his term expired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43055/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, a list of contracts awarded to, and amounts paid to, the owners and operators of direct provision centres from the establishment of the direct provision system to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42995/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when money will be made available for a full-time residential care placement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42734/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42735/14]

Mortgage Arrears: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a little disappointing that the Government has refused to accept what is a modest proposal by Deputy Collins. I commend her on putting forward this motion and on consistently raising the issues of mortgage distress and the need to deal fairly with people who find themselves in this extremely difficult situation. The proposals Deputy Collins has put forward are nothing more than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My questions are about lending in the property, housing and construction sector. I want to get my head around what is happening in that sector at the moment. Will Mr. Boucher explain how he is making decisions about lending to property developers at the moment, what proportion is given to them of the finance they need to carry out a construction development and what criteria are being used?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I am only going to have one minute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the briefing document we have been given it is suggested the average rate for mortgage business in Ireland is 4.5% compared with 2.64% in the eurozone. Is Mr. Boucher disputing this figure?