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- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Some €383 million should have been allocated to the health services.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: We need actions, not words. We need actions, not more commentary.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Across the State people woke up this morning to the horrific newspaper reports on our health services. An elderly woman, placed in an all-male ward due to overcrowding in South Tipperary General Hospital, was allegedly subjected to a horrific sexual assault. In another report we read of Dualtagh Donnelly, the father of two who, having cut his arm on a glass door, bled to death while waiting...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister may not want to hear it but I said on budget night that when he deploys policies like that, this is what we will get. We will get our elderly people on hospital trolleys and people dying in their homes because the emergency service will not get to them within the appropriate time. Does the Minister accept that the Government has failed spectacularly to deal with the crisis in...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: There are more people, too.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (5 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from an organisation representing bus and coach operators (details supplied) in which concerns have been expressed regarding the current procurement process employed by Bus Éireann for contracts relating to the school transport scheme; if he is considering the establishment of an oversight and appeals...
- Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: For the fifth year in a row we are presented with a regressive budget followed by a regressive Finance Bill. This is the also the fifth year in a row for us to get the big lie, that there is no alternative. When one takes a step back and looks at the Finance Bill in its entirety and asks who benefits the most, the answer is very clear. This is a budget and Finance Bill for the...
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I wish to raise the matter of two pieces of legislation. I have asked about the first of these on many occasions. It relates to the release of the 1926 census. The Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan, has promised this and it was promised in the programme for Government. Indeed, on 9 March 2012 it was said that the legislation had been approved by Cabinet. The legislation has not come...
- Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I welcome tonight's debate, in particular the focus, attention and the contribution by Deputy Mac Lochlainn, who has been to the forefront of advocating on behalf of Travellers long before he got elected to this Chamber. Despite the fact that it might not be very popular in some areas he has never shirked his responsibilities to confront the racist views that are held by a minority. I...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Deputy Michael McGrath spoke about the three banks. What happens to any other financial institution that is not contributing to this fund? Where do they lie in terms of access to the fund in the future if they get into trouble?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I am sorry but I did not pick up on the point about the smaller banks.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I assume that is based not on where they have their headquarters but where they are regulated. Would that be correct?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: We have international banks headquartered here. If an international bank is regulated here, would it pay into the fund?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: That would be as well as all smaller banks. We are basically saying that only three financial institutions are falling into this category because of how they are regulated. Is that correct?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I understand that. Let us say we have ten banks instead of three. The Minister has mentioned the two pillar banks and Permanent TSB. If we imagine we have ten banks, would all of them have access to the fund and contribute to it? When this was originally announced, it numbered two or three larger banks across member states. How does that work?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Is that so even if they do not contribute to it?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Let us take Ulster Bank, for example, which has announced it is splitting its businesses from being an all-Ireland institution which reports to Britain to reporting on a Twenty-six Counties and Six Counties basis. Just to tease this out, let us hypothesise that the bank would take another leap, with the southern business being regulated under the Central Bank. Where would Ulster Bank be...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It happens automatically. Are thresholds set down in terms of asset size such that if a bank goes over a certain limit, it automatically falls into the criteria?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I will speak about the smaller banks. There are a number of a small financial institutions that are trying to break into the market, so if one of them does so and starts taking deposits, issuing loans and so forth, will it contribute to the fund? Some of them are already operating here.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Single Resolution Fund Motion: Discussion (3 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, I understand that is the case when it is an arm or offshoot of a parent company.