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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Basically, Ms Rowland is saying there is nothing the Central Bank can do-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: -----and that is why-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but I am conscious of my time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If it is the case that there is nothing that the Central Bank can do to enable homeowners to bridge the gap financially, that is the answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, just as it could not instruct the surveyors who were going out to the banks to approve all these mortgages for assets that were worthless. That is fine. I want to go on to the tied agent situation here and the fact of the EBS scandal still not being resolved. They were excluded or underserved by the compensation scheme. A small number of them believe they were forced to accept a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, because it has come before us. I am very surprised that Mr. Makhlouf's take on it is that it is over because it has been on the books of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Makhlouf. I appreciate that. I will leave my questions at that. I just want to say that the facilitation of the Israeli bonds is absolutely atrocious. I am glad that Mr. Makhlouf, at the request of Deputy Doherty, is going to investigate what can be done there. There must be consideration of what needs to be done by the Central Bank, what we need to do as legislators, or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate that. Will Mr. Makhlouf raise our concerns with the ECB on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We are certainly doing that but the door is shut again, as it is in so many cases. We are told it is not possible to do it. We need to look at all the possibilities and the role we all have in this. At the end of the day, it is the Central Bank that is obviously facilitating the sale of these bonds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank Mr. Makhlouf.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann (9 Oct 2024)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. It is a very interesting engagement. Mr. Meade said Irish Rail made a mistake with the timetable changes after 26 August and he hopes there will not be the same disruption again for passengers. Unfortunately, these things happen. He has held up his hands and said Irish Rail will try to do a bit better. I live in Sligo, in the north west. I will be a bit...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I am sharing time with Deputy Gould. I thank the Minister of State for his statement. We have been over this ground a number of times in discussing similar legislation. I broadly welcome this initiative as we go into the winter. I do not agree, however, with a number of provisions in the legislation. The assistance given should have gone further this winter. We will deal with that...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The impact of the sharp rise in energy costs experienced in 2022 is still being felt. Households are paying on average 59% more for their electricity, and 90% more for their gas, than they were pre-crisis. This is despite the multiple rounds of price reductions announced by suppliers since 2023. Households are still in need of support...

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Even though nitrous oxide ranks among the top three drugs used by young people, it garners very little attention by the media or policy-makers. We have all seen with our own eyes the evidence of its growing use. I gave the canisters the name "silver bullets" because children are playing Russian roulette with this gas. The use of the gas has led to death and serious long-term harm to people...

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Bill opposed?

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No.

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2024: First Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."