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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On the 80 people Ms Cunningham mentioned, who have been challenged and where applications have been withdrawn as a result of fitness and probity, are they all banking applications? Are we looking at certain credit unions also?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: How many of the 11 banks affected by the tracker mortgage scandal are we talking about in terms of the 80 people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Was the challenge on the basis of the tracker mortgage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Can this be applied only in relation to the appointment of an individual to a post within a bank or the promotion to another position? For example, if the Central Bank was of the view a director or the chief executive officer of a bank was not fit as a result of its suspicions or the evidence it had to hold a position, could it employ fitness and probity, or would it have to wait for that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That has not happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Can I just make one point before I conclude? I wrote to the Governor of the Central Bank last May. There were two parts to what I wrote. One part was a protected disclosure, which the Central Bank is investigating, but the other part, which I am happy to talk about, was in relation to an out-of-court settlement that happened in respect of Permanent TSB and a prevailing rate case. This was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank has asked Permanent TSB about that specific case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will be finishing on this but if we could just have clarity, there are a lot of people watching who believe this case was really a possibility to open up their cases that are before the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman. Ms Rowland stated that the Central Bank has access to the details on this case. Does it have access to all of the cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Including the case I have brought to Ms Rowland's attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Ms Rowland stated that the Central Bank is looking at these cases to see if there is a cohort affected. Has the Central Bank concluded that this out-of-court settlement does not affect a wider cohort or is this still a matter that is under consideration by the Central Bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is this case still under consideration? I need to know if that is the case. Is the settlement here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I really appreciate that but I think it would very helpful to get an answer for the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There are also statements on Dáil divisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages Report: Central Bank of Ireland (24 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There is no way that the session would be concluded so I suggest that we reschedule.

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Let people hear that clearly. This was not a budget that changed the fortunes of the many but did change the fortunes of the few who always have the ear of the Government and Fianna Fáil and are always accommodated in legislation such as this. Other workers will have to pay tax of 40% on their salary above the standard rate band while these multimillionaire executives will pay tax of...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has sold out the children of this nation who need a helping hand now. The Minister has reintroduced this tax break by extending the scheme. More than one fifth of houses that were bought through this scheme were bought at a cost of more than €375,000. Worse still, 40% of the people who availed of this tax break already had the 10% deposit that was needed to get the...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Fáiltím roimh an díospóireacht seo inniu sa Teach. Beidh díospóireacht chuimsitheach againn nuair a théann seo go dtí Céim an Choiste ina mbeimid ag plé seo thar trí lá agus muid ag mionscrúdú ná hábhair atá sa Bhille seo. It has been two weeks since we heard the Government announce its budget, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost and legal status of the public services card to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39595/19]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We have consistently pushed for a child maintenance service and we have welcomed the comments of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, in September signalling her intention to examine the establishment of a statutory child maintenance agency. In her statement on the budget the Minister said she would establish a judge-led group to determine best...