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- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I fully support this Bill and the intention to set criteria that will ensure access to cash remains at the level prevailing in December 2022. The Bill also aims to bring independent ATM deployers, IADs, and CIT companies under the supervisory remit of the Central Bank of Ireland. This is a very welcome move and a very pertinent...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Joan Collins: I hope this Bill is the first step in counteracting what I think is a process of profit-chasing by the banks by removing vital in-person infrastructure and services. I hope it is the start of the urgent action needed to ensure everyone has access to cash and banking services and is able to use cash across the economy. Most people have felt the effects of year after year of branch...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. If anything was ever to be learned by people across this country or, indeed, across Europe, it was when there was a bit of an outage in technology a few months ago and nobody was able to use their phone set-up or card set-up. Sometimes people go down a road and it is the cool thing to have this card and swipe everywhere they go. That day,...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Its aim to ensure effective access to cash across the State is a very welcome proposal. It will set criteria for the accessibility of ATM and cash service points so that no region is left behind. It is important that people have access to cash. It is not just older people; there are many people who are quite concerned about issues regarding...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
James O'Connor: I thank Deputy Troy for allowing me to use some of his time and the House for allowing me to speak. This is a very important issue to me personally. We must remember the prelude to why this came about through the good work of the previous Minister, Michael McGrath, and now with the Minister, Deputy Chambers. I recognise my constituency neighbour in the Minister of State, Deputy Butler....
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: A bit of luck money.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Browne: It is welcome to finally see some legislation that might put some manners on the banks. They have tried to reduce the ability of people to access cash when and where they want over the last couple of years. Let us not forget that cash remains the preferred payment method of one in five people in Ireland. It is also important for social and financial inclusion for many people, and is a...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this Bill which seeks to ensure that everyone, regardless of where they live, has a reasonable level of access to cash. This legislation was proposed by the retail banking review in 2022. We in the Social Democrats fully support the implementation of this recommendation. There is no doubt that cash usage has declined rapidly in the last decade, particularly during the...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Robert Troy: With the permission of the House, I am sharing my speaking time with Deputy James O'Connor. I welcome and support this Bill. I compliment the former Minister, Michael McGrath, who worked on it initially, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, for bringing it forward and ensuring there will be sufficient and effective access to cash in future in this State. Without Government intervention, it...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: The Labour Party welcomes the Bill. Much of what it contains aligns with the comprehensive submission we made in reference to access to cash in the context of the banking review a couple of years ago. We are happy to support the Bill and its principles. There are elements that we are concerned about and that we will tease these out on Committee Stage, but the premise of the Bill is sound....
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Unfortunately, the Deputy will not be passing over to Deputy Doherty. Not for the first time this week, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is facing me. I will possibly be asking her to bring certain issues directly to the attention of the Minister.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: On this topic.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Definitely on this topic. I would not dream of going off on a tangent in any way, shape or form. That would be unheard of.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: We want a happy Minister of State.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: While I have the Minister of State here, it would be wrong not to raise a particular issue. In fairness, it is an incredibly important one. We have all heard about the major concerns. Even in recent weeks, people have raised those concerns with us. One lady contacted me about her dad. There was some element of confusion at a senior football match in the Dundalk area. As he was not au...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite ag an Teachta Ó Murchú ó thaobh na ATMs seo agus an chaoi nach bhfuil seirbhís trí Ghaeilge á cur ar fáil. Ba chóir go mbeidh gá seirbhís trí Ghaeilge a chur ar fáil. Tá a fhios againn gur féidir é seo a dhéanamh. Rinneadh é roimhe seo. Tá a fhios...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. Anois, Sinn Féin. There are three speakers in this slot.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: Deputy Doherty is not here just yet.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave the Deputies share time whatever way they wish.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: We will share the time as we go along. I appreciate that. I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Access to cash and the right of people to use cash is vital. That is the nub of this. People have a right to use cash as well as to access it. Since Covid and even before that, people have spoken of restrictions on the use of cash. People used cards more and more during that...