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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)

Pearse Doherty: -----and there is a unit that has specific responsibility in terms of director of consumer protection, and that is going.

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

Pearse Doherty: We currently have a director of consumer protection, notwithstanding that it is a deputy governor with responsibility who does a fine job in relation to that, and long may that continue. I know there are a lot of media reports in relation to Ms Rowland's future but good luck to her wherever she ends up. We have a director of consumer protection. These are people who are supposed to get up...

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

Pearse Doherty: But the role is being absorbed into other functions.

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

Pearse Doherty: In his letter, why did Mr. Makhlouf say that the reporting, which was in the Irish Independent, may be misleading? I cannot see anything that is misleading, given what Mr. Makhlouf has said today.

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

Pearse Doherty: No-----

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

Pearse Doherty: Point out to me one thing in the article that was misleading, in Mr. Makhlouf's view.

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

Pearse Doherty: First of all, it actually quotes the Central Bank on the senior leadership and it mentions Ms Rowland in relation to that piece.

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

Pearse Doherty: I will ask just one final question. I wrote to the Central Bank in 2022 about the sale of properties and the banks requiring a test for mica content in relation to the blocks. At the time the Central Bank said it was not aware of that during its engagement with lenders. It is clearly now an operational policy. We have a situation where people who have mica content of 5.5% or 6% are being...

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

Pearse Doherty: It is.

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

Pearse Doherty: There are two parts to this. The Bank of Ireland has had extensive engagement on mortgageability with people rebuilding their houses through the scheme. These are not the people I am talking about. I am referring to people who will not get on the scheme because they do not meet the criteria. The banks are saying that if there is mica content, which is the wrong measurement to use, and if...

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

Pearse Doherty: Maybe an updated chart for the committee would be helpful.

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

Pearse Doherty: I will come to that in a minute. The Governor made that point in his opening statement, in response to questions from Deputy Boyd Barrett and indeed in the letter to the committee. However, I ask him to acknowledge that Israel is promoting these as war bonds. It is really important to understand where this financing goes to and to what efforts. We know that Israel has killed more...

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

Pearse Doherty: I welcome what Mr. Makhlouf has said and I would not expect him to say anything else bar to take what I have said in a serious way, which he has acknowledged, and to go back and look at this and look at what is in the regulation and whether there is a way not to have Ireland as a home country selling these war bonds. I have made my point strongly and often in relation to this. I argue that...

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

Pearse Doherty: But is the directorate gone? I am looking at the structure of the Central Bank of Ireland.

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

Pearse Doherty: We have a deputy governor of consumer protection at the minute and we have a director. We have a unit of consumer protection. When whistleblowers came to me about money lending, I knew who to go to. I went to the directorate of consumer protection and I sat down to meet them. When we want to talk about defective blocks we can go to the director of consumer protection. Is it not the case...

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

Pearse Doherty: Did the director of banking have no responsibility for consumer protection up until now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Committee (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Farrell: Good afternoon everyone. As I have recently been appointed as Chairman of the committee, I am required to read a declaration under Standing Order 104. I solemnly declare that I will duly, faithfully and to the best of my knowledge and ability, execute the office of Cathaoirleach of the Oireachtas committee on transport and communications without fear or favour, apply the rules as laid down...