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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision in respect of a fuel allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61204/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for cognitive behavioural therapy at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61169/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the responsible community service for a home support package for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61203/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I have a query that might relate to other sections too but it can be addressed in the context of section 44, which provides that the Central Bank "may hold inquiry into suspected commission of or participation in prescribed contravention". As I said during our consideration of the Bill last week, obviously I support the legislation. I have sought individual accountability for many years, so...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I hear what the Minister is saying. I had thought about whether that could be a contravention in itself. While the section heading says "Bank may hold inquiry into suspected commission of or participation in prescribed contravention", the legislation is quite clear. It refers to circumstances in which the bank "suspects on reasonable grounds that the person to whom the investigation...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister talking about section 53 with regard to appeal confirmation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The earlier section. My apologies.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is the breach of the conduct standards in the new section a prescribed contravention?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Thus, the Department has no concerns with regard to the ability to hold somebody to account with regard to planning a contravention that has not yet taken effect.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that and I understand the planning of a contravention would be captured in the conduct standards. It is like saying in criminal law that everyone should be nice to each other and if they are not nice to each other, they can be found guilty. However, not being nice to somebody may be planning the murder of somebody else. As the Minister has read out, somebody could be held...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Of course.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: With regard to section 45 and the notice provided to the individual who is the subject of the inquiry, will the Minister inform the committee whether the inquiry will have the powers to notify others to appear before it such somebody who has evidence that Mr. X or Mrs. X has contravened specific provisions? Is that allowed? Where in the legislation do we have to serve notice with regard to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister and I take his word as to there being a legislative basis or not. The key question I had, because we are dealing with the powers of the inquiry and so on, was that I thought there would be provision in this legislation to make sure. This could be subject to severe legal challenges depending on what happens in the future. Is the Minister informing the committee that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: This is the first time that an inquiry of this nature is being established in legislation. The way it is being established and the panel that will be appointed has not existed heretofore. Is that correct?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It goes to the core of it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that regarding the case and the notification that has to apply to a person concerned, however, while there is a regulatory committee set up within the bank already, in this legislation we are creating the entire architecture which you could argue is something similar but the panel that will be appointed by the Minister in conjunction with the bank, which we deal with in later...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is that inquiry we are looking at in terms of Section 33BA the same? The Minister makes the point that this will be the same inquiry that is being established under this legislation?