Texts and emails, Wednesday 14 April 2010
Topic: NAMA and the financial regulator, the public sector pay deal
Panellists: Peter Mathews (banking consultant), Emmet Oliver (Irish Independent), Eamon Quinn (Sunday Tribune), Kieran O’Donnell TD (FG). For a discussion of the public service pay deal, Blair Horan (CPSU) and Louise O’Reilly (SIPTU) joined Vincent.
Can anyone on the panel tell the Irish people which property developers think around 15 in total who were on a recent golfing junkett!! Sitting in a restaurant singing songs about NAMA?? Would love to know their names??? Typical off what they actually think of this process they are getting away with this any other country would have them jailed by now or stripped of all assets, or are they giving them the chance to get rid of paper trail first??
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what qualifies any member of the cabinet to make desions regarding the banks and nama.do any of them have degrees in finance and business and if not why are decisions of this magnitude been taken by unqualified people.its madness.
David, Cork
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how many ministers will have electric cars, they show no example to the nation.
Hugh mctigue, mayo
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Why is neary not being charged with misconduct and made repay his enormous salary. I've lost my job and in negative equity on my apt. Why are these gangsters getting away with murder.
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You are wasting you're time, the Irish people are to gutless and lazy to take any action. Weall know the traitors.
James, Wexford
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mathew elderfield seems to be doing a fine job doesnt mr elderfield look the living image of the late john f kennedy
Ber, Limerick
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do u know dat da bank dat sponsers ur progamme ar responsible 4 loosing da deeds of my house so i cant sell iam going 2 court
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Why don't we have a referendum to change the law so the banks can recover the money owed to them by developers.
John
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Vincent did u hear about the boy who just made his confirmation...his mother asked him do u want to put your confirmation money into the bank? The child replied....na ma
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Its a disgrace, all the ghost estates, and i heard there being knocked, why cant they be put them under local authority,and give them to the people who need them.between the goverment the banks and nama they should all be shot.
Paul, Cork
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Appears the Banks .. That are running the country. And this gov.. Pandering to them.. Shocking vincent.
Anne Ryan, Kilkenny
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Brian cowen knew exactly what was going on n d banks, he was minister 4 finance at the time, he could show the late charles haughey a thing r 2.
Traolac, Co. Dublin
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Talking about nama is all right but unless the government allows the reports to be visible and not a cover up. The people of ireland deserve for this to be open . Not hidden behind closed doors . Let the main culprits fall on the sword and not being bailed out
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how can we be expected to have total confidence in mr. Elderfield as his appointment and selection was made by totally incompetent TDs.?
JM, D8
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is it not time for special courts to establish offences against the state with regard to financial willful mismanagement
John Woods, D14
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at last we have a regulator with balls and hasn't been 2 the galway tent. Straight away we have politicians stickin their nose in mindin their rich buddies and lookin for votes. Nothin changes.
Paul, Cavan
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Will you please address the financial irregularities in the Dublin innercity partnership, better known as the Poverty industry.
Therese, Dublin
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Vincent listening to the unions pushing their members to approve the public sector deal is a bit like listening to a discussion on how many deck chairs should be left out as the titanic is sinking.
John
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What about the money those same bankers got on the backs of every insurance on loan.. Big money in that area of loans to inviduals within bank.
Anne, Kilkenny
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Vincent why is there no transparency provided to the taxpayer for Anglo or no public inquiry given the sums involved
Ger, Churchtown
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Comments please on days of non compliance on the fifteenth of every month in eighty countries
Chris McCormac
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Are all the fianna failers afraid 2 appear on tv.
Mike
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Why is elderfield closing quinn who employs 5000 people but keeping anglo open at the cost of 27 billion to the state.
Stephen, Sligo
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do the panel think bank robbers should go to jail ?
Ger
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if banks r not supposed to own insurance co s how about ark life and aib bank
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NAMA is obviously a state sponsored bail out for FF's friends and patrons at tax payers' expense. Can Elderfield break the connection between the FF state and big business in this country?
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I take it you know your program tonight is spon'ed by Bank of Scotland?!*!
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For all the old people that saved forever and brought Irish stock as advised by Irish fund managers. Shame shame on you. Its too late now to advise eighty year old people not to invest in Irish bank stock.
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We need a Fidel Castro 2 sort dis shower of bankers and corrupt politicians
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I have money on deposit n Anglo. What does the panel think i shd do, should i take it out and if so where shd i put it? Under the matress!!
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Vincent is it true that National Irish Bank are no longer going to accept cash lodgements in their bank?
Karen, Moate
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look lads whats the problem? Cant ye see the bigger picture? Counting the "half-pence and the pence" of today? We bat LONGTERM. We own the lot! Hahaha
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are we entitled 2 know who are the bondholders?
Maire, Cork
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If a bank has given loans of a billion with securities of a quarter billion then a quarter billion is the most Nama should pay. It really is that simple experts my arse.
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how much more can we listen to about nama.well with such a small population it justifies the salaries of so many windbags .
Joe Doherty, Donegal
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it seems that there is something rotten in the state of banking directors clean out the banks or face a revolution of ordinary people .enough is enough.
Mark
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could we have a debate.to ask the uk will they take us back,can we rejoin.
Con, Finglas
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Vincent could we not let Eamonn Ryan run the economy, he is able, in these dire financial times, to provide, well off people with, a grant to buy electric cars... also he must have some magical pot of money to maintain a road infrastructure, as there is no VRT or road tax on there vehicles...
Martin, Carrick-on-suir
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For all the old people that saved forever and brought Irish stock as advised by Irish fund managers. Shame shame on you. Its too late now to advise eighty plus people not to invest in Irish bank stock.
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Wants to know what will happen when the banks have to face up to the massive wave of personnel debt that will never be repaid. Commercial debt is all anyone is talking about.
Glenn
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Personnel debt that cannot be repaid will completely freeze the function of banks...
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vincent its outrageous and unacceptable i see members of my family in dire circumstances because of all this greed and absolute reckless. Who is going to pay?
Anne, Cork
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how come in the croke park agreement nothing has been said or done about the higher civil servants who only took 3 per cent cut.until this is dealt with and t.d.s numerous pensions are dealt with i am not convinced that things are as bad as is potrayed.
Maeve, Donegal
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As an ordinary citizin , according to the Gov, im employed, im on a Fas course, so im not on the live register, i get 200E Per week, id like to know who gave our Gov permission to gamble with such a colossal amount of our money and our childrens future? Honestly, do they have any idea what they are really doing?
MD, Waterford
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is there anyone who has a clue how to run our country. Dustin the turkey would do a better job
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Tell that FG character to go home. Nothing as painful as watching someone who is so much out of his depth talking about something he knows nothing about. Is this the alternative? How dopey are we to need someone to have to tell us that we are where are, I'd never have guessed.
Larry
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are the people who are responsible for the banking crisis actually bank robbers , that is to say common criminals and deserve jailing - poor paddy
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The people of Ireland should be out marching on the Dail in uproar at what has gone on between Banks and Developers. The Fianna Fail Govt is in cohouts with Banks and Developers, the whole thing is a disgrace and not one person has yet being convicted and jaild. I am so sick of the carry on in this country, no accountability whatsoever. The ordinary decent people of this country are being walked over by this Fianna Fail Govt who fail to take honest decisions and govern.
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That lady is wrong!members are outraged and appalled!all that blustering before xmas and caving in like they did just to save their own positions and salaries!we are disgusted!they totally let us down.
Mary
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O Connor + McLoone should consider their position.They sold out their workers + took no pain themselves
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Why have boi and aib staff not have wage cuts. And also bord gais and esb seem to be immune, no cuts there either.
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The government should never have agreed that deal. We can't afford it! Thanks be to God the foolish, greedy Public Service Unions look like they'll save our bacon and turn it down John
Re bank rescue, i think lessons about whats in public interest to save and what should be slayed by the axe as regard systemic failures will have been learnt hopefully by the state and society for the future.
Nigel Mcgrath
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in my opinion most of these union leaders r only worried about their own jobs and r closet f f supporters.
Connie Foley, Macroom
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very interesting people tonight.please ask mr matthews how were the developers allowed put their homes and other properties into their wives names? I cant understand it
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Vincent, at a recent meeting with a regional director of one of the "big 2 banks" he stated "if I was to do any of my bad lending deals again I would, it made sense at the time" as I said he is now a regional director, they will do this all over again, what hope have we got! I am an employee of this bank,
John, Dublin
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