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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Why will the Government not spend it on water?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The €0.5 billion the Government will put into the rainy day fund.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Tell him to grow up.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I extend my sympathy and that of the Sinn Féin team to the families of Ana Kriegel and Jastine Valdez who lost their lives over the past week. They are tragic and shocking situations and they should refocus us on the work we need to do to keep everyone, but particularly women, safe in Ireland. Everybody is horrified at what happened in recent days. I also want to talk about...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise; I have to return to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. I will go to the Balmoral show because it is very important to have an exchange. I am looking forward to speaking to all of the rich farmers in the North. Us poor farmers in the west do not have a lot. All of the good land is in the North. I am looking forward to...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I suggest that we ask the Minister to have a full discussion on water supplies, sewerage schemes and the attendant responsibilities relating to both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I note with interest what Mr. Burgess is saying. Does he agree that the banks have a social responsibility given that their debt was socialised, which caused the collapse of the whole economy? I think he is looking at non-performing loans and GDP-to-credit ratios is a narrow and abstract way. Do the private banks, followed by the vulture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am concerned that reference is being made to a headline figure of 10,000 people who do not engage as a means of setting a narrative. I do not agree with what has been said about those who can afford to pay their mortgages. I pay my mortgage, but I understand that some people cannot afford to do so. I think they should be taken off the table. We are not talking about people who will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am worried that the 10,000 figure is being used to set a narrative in the absence of a solid basis for that figure. I am reminded of the way insurance companies attribute fault to people who have accidents and have to claim. I do not think that should be done. I can explain why we have the court cases and all of that. Mr. Burgess has told us to go to the courts. I have been to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Burgess think the banks are right to sell off a person's loan to a vulture fund for less than they would get if they allowed that person to stay in his or her own home? We have to remember that the vulture funds ultimately do not have to pay any tax on their profits, or pay a minimal amount of tax on them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The vulture funds do not pay their share of tax in this country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If we compartmentalise everything, then we are not getting a picture of what needs to be done in terms of homelessness, housing, fairness and justice for people, and to keep them in their own homes. People are willing to pay what they can afford to pay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Will Mr. Hall comment on why banks are choosing to sell to vulture funds rather than to do a restructuring deal with the person who is in the home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am absolutely disgusted that the vulture funds have refused invitation after invitation to come before this committee. I want to ask each of the witnesses a question on the vulture funds. If the vulture funds have nothing to hide and it has been said that one can do a restructuring deal with them because they are a servicing agent and are not ruled by the Central Bank of Ireland and all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If the vulture funds have nothing to hide why will they not come before this committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Burgess agree with such an assessment? Does he agree that the committee members would be so unreasonable to vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: They are many questions that we would like to put to the vulture funds in public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If we promised the vulture funds to deal with them gently, would they come in?