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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, it is not that. It is the priority. The Central Bank should be encouraging banks to make sure the priority is that customers can switch rather than closing their accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank has to approve the process. I have not seen the letters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. I think the timeframe was to have legislation next year and be operational two years after that. Obviously, the ECB is trying to keep up with what is happening with other currencies and what Facebook is doing, as well as trying to be relevant to where people are at. The issue of those in arrears was referenced in the context of retail banking. I will not focus on that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. As regards differential or dual pricing, I welcome the work that was done by the Central Bank and, in fairness, the engagement we have had in the past two yeas since I submitted a complaint. I also welcome the fact that the analysis is now being carried out, although I do have concerns in respect of how it is being implemented. I made a submission in that regard to the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We discussed this on Second Stage and I have very little to add on Committee Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State clarify the State's commitment to an initial guarantee of €2.3 billion under the terms of the new arrangements to borrow, NAB, decision on 16 January 2020?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The decision taken in 2020 was for an initial guarantee of €2.2 billion, €2.3 billion or €2.4 billion. I know the number has changed due to conversion rates. How does that sit with section 4, on the individual call? Are we guaranteeing up to that amount? Are they just sums that would be called on under section 4?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State clarify the overall envelope of €2.4 billion in the context of sections 2 and 4, as well as the individual calls facilitated in section 4? What measures would have to be taken by the Minister to take action on such a call or provide a guarantee? Is it a resolution of the House?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is not laid before the House or such.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is that not facilitated at this point? Why is that required here?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Does that relate to a call to be made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Governor and deputy governor to the committee. Picking up on the point on cryptocurrencies or crypto, the president of the ECB made an address recently in which she said cryptocurrencies "are certainly being used, as we speak, as a way to circumvent the sanctions that have been decided by many countries around the world against Russia". Is it Mr. Makhlouf's view that crypto is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank our guests for their attendance. Mr. Makhlouf and our other guests referred to the changes that are taking place at a financial level. There has been significant focus at this meeting, perhaps more so than most, on cryptocurrencies and all the rest, but the ECB itself is developing its e-euro or digital euro. I know there are suggestions the deposits could be limited to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is that separate to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust, CCRT?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is not connected to this Bill at all; it is just a facility.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If the Minister of State is going to table an amendment on Report Stage, can the note be submitted to us beforehand?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge that the Minister has spoken with the Secretary of State but we need this raised at the highest level. We need the Taoiseach to lift the phone to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as we requested last week. We need to use our diplomatic muscle internationally on this. I also have concerns that section 81 of the Bill breaches the common travel area provision because it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Our party leader, Mary Lou McDonald, raised this issue with the Taoiseach last week. It is something I have been raising here since last year, because this has been an issue of real concern. Given that the House of Commons has overturned the amendment to the legislation made by the House of Lords, the situation now is that a Polish person living in Lifford and having to travel across the...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That it is necessary to bring such a motion before the House tells its own story, the story of how this Government and previous Governments have failed to prioritise children's disability services. The Government and the HSE are required by law, as Deputy Cullinane said, and by decency to protect the rights of children with disabilities. The motion calls on the Government to fulfil the law,...