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Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: On 6 April, the Minister stated in the House in response to me that while he did not believe that pursuing the matter was in our best interests "at this time", ultimately, "it will be an assessment as to which route - ESM or the markets - represents the best value which will determine these decisions." The Minister went to Brussels, spoke to the media and said that this was off the agenda...

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: When the Government scrambled back from Brussels and went on our national airwaves to tell people about the game changer and the seismic shift, I appeared on the same radio station a little later. I said that the Government was holding the ball in its hands and was facing an open goal and that all it needed to do was put the ball in the back of the net but it has screwed that up royally....

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: -----instead of the Minister going to Brussels with the notion that this should be off the agenda. If we want new politics, let us discuss the issue instead of relying on the likes of Rothschild and Goldman Sachs, some of whose advice to the Minister on what we should do with the banks is given pro bonoand some of whose advice is not. Let parliamentarians decide with all of the information....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: We definitely need political reform because the first minute and 50 seconds of the time allowed for this reply was spent by the Minister on not answering the question. Can we get to the details of this in the minute that I have available? David Hall, who has done sterling work on behalf of those in mortgage arrears and who was involved in the programme for Government negotiations, has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the idea that these two proposals would be put on a statutory basis and that lenders would have to offer them. It is David Hall's understanding that those were the two proposals agreed as part of the programme for Government talks. Can the Minister confirm that, at a minimum, these two proposals will be offered to all distressed borrowers? Can he also inform us of the advice he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the statement in the programme for Government regarding the intention to "work with the Central Bank to amend the code of conduct on mortgage arrears to include an obligation on providers of mortgage credit to provide a range of sustainable arrears solutions, this code of conduct will be put on a statutory basis", what these sustainable arrears...

An Teanga Gaeilge: Statements (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Níl mórán ama agam so díreoidh mé ar chúpla pointe. Ar dtús báire, tá go leor ráite fá dtaobh den fhadhb atá againn agus sin nach bhfuil Aire sinsearach ansin. Sin fadhb millteanach mhór. Ba chóir go mbeadh Aire sinsearach freagrach as an nGaeilge agus as an nGaeltacht ag leibhéal Rialtais agus go mbeadh éilimh...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is doing the exact same thing again: she is not answering the question.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the expected timeline as to when Irish variable mortgage rates will move in line with the European average, in view of the statement in the programme for Government regarding the Government’s intention to take all necessary action to tackle high variable rates. [10542/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a tribunal is currently in place to consider individual applications in relation to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; the last date on which the tribunal formally convened; if a dedicated tribunal is not currently in place, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10806/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the national capacity review of the Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the volume and category of calls received by the Ambulance Service in respect of each division in County Donegal in each of the years since 2010, including Letterkenny, Carndonagh, Killybegs, Dungloe, the Finn Valley, Ballyshannon, and Donegal town, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 22 March 2016, if he is aware that the information provided is ambiguous and somewhat deceptive; if he will provide the accurate schedule of the times of when ambulances are on duty in respect of each of the base stations serving all divisions in County Donegal including, Letterkenny, Carndonagh, Killybegs,...

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to share five minutes of my time with Deputy Tóibín.

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I listened with interest to what the previous speakers had to say. I would like to focus particularly on what the Minister, Deputy Noonan, said. He was completely off the mark when he blamed the drop in the shares of Irish banks on the publication of this Bill or indeed, given that I do not think the Bill had been published when that decrease took place, on the media commentary on the...

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am looking forward to the debate on Thursday in regard to the changes to the Order. Perhaps we will need to look again at page 27, when we have sanctions for Ministers who refuse to answer questions, and provide that this will extend to Leaders' Questions, given the Tánaiste's refusal to answer simple questions on the Higgins report. When is it anticipated joint committees will be...

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: And through the Seanad?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will return to a surviving spouse a sum of money which was recovered from a deceased person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9427/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Awards (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts she will make to expedite an appeal submitted to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal by a person (details supplied) in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9446/16]