Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am just trying to get to the factual position. Honest to God, Ms Murdock is telling me that this Bill does exactly the same as my Bill, which is blatant nonsense, even though I have told her what the section is. I can read it into the record word for word. It is simply untrue, and I cannot sit here and listen to her saying, "No, you are telling me black is white." It is not true. Ms Murdoch can change her argument but she should not treat me like a fool and make suggestions about legislation that only empowers the Central Bank to collect additional information on payments made out of taxpayers' funding. Section 4 of the legislation states: "details of the costs borne and provisions made associated with dealing with relevant claims, including details of deductions, in respect of payments out of public moneys, made by insurance undertakings from the amounts paid in satisfaction of relevant claims". That is basically the money that was deducted from awards settled by insurance companies which was reduced because of State payments to those same businesses. It does not do what my legislation does.