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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (1 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made with the proposed alignment of local government and the engagement there has been with representatives of staff and the community sector. [20498/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (1 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the right a citizen has to a bank account. [20600/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (1 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines that exist for banks regarding lodgements they can refuse to accept, that is, packs of coins under a certain value or coins as part of priority lodgments for businesses.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20634/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Why does the Minister forecast that unemployment will be worse in 2015? He is forecasting that it will be 12.8%, compared to the 11.7% he forecast last year. The other issue I have is with regard to the growth forecasts from 2013 to 2015. Last year the Minister forecast growth of 2.2% for 2013, but this has now been revised downwards to 1.3%. For 2014 the forecast was 3%, which is now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is in the domestic economy that jobs will increase. Will the Minister answer the question? This is my third time to ask it. Why is he projecting a rise in unemployment in 2015, giving a level of 12.8%, compared to the projection of 11.7% that was made last year, despite all the work the Government claims it has done on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has revised them downwards as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We are pressed for time. We are not giving away anything. The figures show the Government is overshooting its targets and, as the Minister remarked earlier, bond rates are substantially lower. However, that is a result of the austerity and the pressure that ordinary people in this State have had to endure. That is what has resulted in these positives. While the markets may be pleased and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that, but I am asking whether it is the Government's strategy to get to 3% and whether any benefit or overshoot will be given back in the form of an easing of austerity in that year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Keeping expenditure that low over that period will result in severe pressure on ordinary people. We have a growing and an ageing population and that will translate into serious difficulties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That may be the Minister's position, but many people will take the view, when they consider how they are getting on and the pressures they have in their lives, that it is not working. I want to move on to the point-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am telling the Minister the reality of where people are at. That is the reality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is where a lot of people are at. It is fine to have projections on paper relating to deficits but there is an impact on real people and real lives in real communities, and that is what I am reflecting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is the reason I believe there needs to be a let-up in austerity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I fully contest that, but I want to move on to a question on unemployment. The Minister's last update, with which we must compare this, was in 2012. This time last year, the Minister estimated unemployment would be 11.7% in 2015. In this update, the Minister estimates it will be 12.8%. Given that the Government is suggesting that the action plan for jobs has been so successful, why does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Stability Programme Update: Discussion with Minister for Finance (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Like Deputy McGrath, I have been trying to parse the figures in the best way possible in the short time available. Most people are concerned about the fiscal adjustment the Government plans in the October budgets this year and next year. The updated document the Minister has provided basically says to stay on course. Some of that is technical assumptions. According to the figures the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Rate (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm the name or names of the principal person or persons at the Central Bank of Ireland responsible for setting and monitoring targets at the banks for dealing with distressed mortgages. [20016/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation for the €284,000 of ex-gratia payments paid to former directors/dependents referred to on page 127 of the 2012 annual report and accounts of Bank of Ireland, a bank in which he controls 15% of the ordinary shares and €1.5bn of preference shares. [20017/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance further to reports in a national newspaper that a property subject to a loan from Bank of Ireland, in which he owns 15% of the ordinary shares and €1.5bn of preference shares, was sold in January 2012 for circa STG£ 5m and is now on the market with an asking price of STG 12.3m, if he is satisfied that the sale in January 2012 maximised the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a Sunday newspaper on 21 April 2013 regarding the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation which claimed to quote a Department spokesperson telling the newspaper, if the value of the assets sold is not sufficient to compensate National Assets Management Agency for the bonds it has issued, he will be required to...

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