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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tá an scannal ó thaobh cúiteamh do theaghlaigh atá cráite ag míoca agus pirít ag dul ar aghaidh go fóill. Chuala muid ar fad na scéalta ó na teaghlaigh agus tá sár-jab déanta acu ag cur a gcuid pointí trasna le linn an fheachtais seo. Ar an 15 Meitheamh, thacaigh an tAire agus an Rialtas le rún ó Shinn Féin...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 346. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a date for an MRI scan in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53741/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 353. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a consultation in Sligo University Hospital ophthalmology department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53776/21]

Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: As we begin discussing the Finance Bill tonight, I am deeply disappointed, to say the least, that the Government is going to miss the deadline once again to do what is right by the families in Donegal and elsewhere who are suffering as a result of no regulation or light-touch regulation. Their houses are crumbling around them. The extended deadline, 9 November, is now going to be missed by...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this Bill before the House. In a time of pandemic and economic downturn, the credit union movement has served the local needs of the communities within which it is embedded. We all agree that credit unions are trusted, visible and they understand what makes and strengthens communities. Just this month, credit unions maintained the top spot for best...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the National Broadband Plan will be rolled out across County Donegal by townland and yearly quarter in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53603/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to address the frequent cancellations of Bus Éireann Route 30 between counties Donegal and Dublin; if there are plans to ensure that such cancellations are always published on the Bus Éireann website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53605/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Professor Moloney to the committee. I am sorry I missed her opening statement, which I read earlier. Second Stage of the Finance Bill is being dealt with at the same time as this meeting and I am trying to be in a number of locations at the same time. I welcome Professor Moloney's opening statement and the commission's broad terms of reference, which are broader than those of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Thanks a million for that. I wish Professor Moloney really well on her work. While we may not agree with some of the recommendations and may be delighted with others, the important thing is that we have evidence-based research. I have a couple of final questions before my time runs out.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Remit, Terms of Reference and Priorities: Commission on Taxation and Welfare (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will keep them very short. Is the commission going to look at international experience? For example, employers' PRSI here is way below what is required. That brings me to my second question. The commission has been asked to look at long-term commitments from the Government but governments change. Some parties want to see a bigger State and greater State involvement while others want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. I also welcome that we are dealing with the heads of this proposed Bill. It was mentioned the Central Bank's behaviour and culture report into Irish retail banks which called for this type of legislation was published in July 2018. We are now coming to the end of 2021 and we still do not have the legislation, only heads of the proposed Bill. What is disappointing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is clear in the legislation and is not my question. Each of these regulated financial institutions will have to map out the structures and roles each individual has. This person would have that area of management. He or she has taken all reasonable steps and therefore absolves himself or herself from action by the Central Bank, but by reporting the issue further up the line to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The explanatory note states that this is done to ensure that no further damage will be done to financial services. The key question is whether this will be applicable to somebody who no longer holds a controlled function and no longer operates in the financial services sector. Does the reach still go that far?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The explanatory note of Head 11 states: This head provides for the amendment of section 25 of the 2010 Act to ensure that the Central Bank can investigate individuals who the Bank suspects pose a danger to consumers or the financial system, irrespective of whether they continue to perform a CF role at the time when an investigation is being commenced. The problem is that the explanatory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will run out of time, but what is envisaged in this scheme is that we can fine individuals who held those roles, so it is not just about whether they are fit to carry out a function again in the future. Many of them cut and run; they sell up the company. We have seen it with the Davy Group, and so on. We need to have reach in a situation where somebody has been caught red handed, leaves,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am satisfied with that. On defining a prescribed contravention, it is the same as set out in the Central Bank Act 1942. It includes the mistreatment of consumers under a breach of the consumer code. I presume that that will be the same and it will be in the scope of the legislation. The question is how that will be defined and how the mistreatment of consumers will be defined under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that it is an enhancement to where we are at, but I want to get it crystal clear in my own head. Whatever about common standards, a breach of that is committing a prescribed contravention. Clearly, in this legislation, it is defined how somebody commits a prescribed contravention. Therefore, you will have to find that the regulated firm is in breach first before you can find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2021: Central Bank (3 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The legislation states, if an individual is not in compliance with the common conduct standards, that is a prescribed contravention under Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act. Are we right there, yes?