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An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State does not like to hear the truth. Every year, we show the Government how it can deliver more houses.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We showed how it could have delivered 10,000 social houses and 5,000 affordable houses. We bring to the Government the legislation which states it should legislate to ensure that no family is evicted into homelessness. What does the Government do? It votes against it. The Government prioritises investors and vulture funds and it throws Irish citizens to the wolves. The reason for the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps being taken to ensure that the optimum response is always deployed by the State in circumstances in which communities face the threat posed by emergency situations such as the recent wildfires in west County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20585/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the precise time the request for the Air Corps to be deployed to provide support to local fire services tending to the recent wildfires in County Donegal was received; when formal approval for the Air Corps helicopter to be dispatched was granted as per the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20586/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a correction to the record of Dáil Éireann is required regarding his replies on the issue of the historic treatment of food and food supplements for the purposes of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20446/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been sanctioned for planned refurbishment and upgrade works at St. Joseph's and Ramelton community hospitals; and if so, when works will commence [20409/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20502/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I want to raise the commitment in the programme for Government in regard to keeping people in their homes. Just this morning, at the finance committee, Ulster Bank confirmed it is going to sell another portfolio of loans, this time loans on family homes, to a vulture fund, and it expects this to happen before the end of the year. This comes on top of last year's sale of almost 4,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----to deliver on this project after a number of years if further losses are incurred. What I want on behalf of my constituents who do not have broadband is certainty. If we are going down this road, we need to be sure it will be delivered. Those questions have not been answered. This is why there is an onus on the Government to consult with the rest-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish with this. There is an onus on the Government to consult with the rest and look at the alternative options that will provide certainty that we will finally have broadband in our rural communities.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Answer my questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: As a Deputy representing a largely rural constituency, I know first hand the importance of rolling out broadband to every home across the State. It is essential that we deliver high-speed broadband in rural Ireland. People want, need and deserve it. However, that actually means delivering it and being sure that the capacity exists to do so. Unfortunately, the national broadband plan as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The final submission from the Department only arrived a couple of days ago. How the Government looked at it upside down and inside out and all over the place beggars belief. The problem is that there are serious criticisms and question marks over whether this plan will ever be delivered. They have not been answered. A senior official is saying there are questions whether the bidder has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask questions similar to those asked by Deputy Michael McGrath on provisioning on foot of the tracker mortgage scandal. I assume the bank has a requirement to provide for the Central Bank fine. The witnesses are very clear that, so far, the bank wrongly took €95.54 million from its customers' accounts without their knowledge for many years. It kept that money from them and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In the bank's accounts, there is provision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When Mr. Stanley says "within that", what is "that"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: So the bank is making provision within the €297 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We know the operational cost is €150 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I am aware that the bank is not disclosing but it does not take a genius to figure out it has made a tiny provision for the Central Bank fine. If the money it has paid out so far to customers is €120 million and, as the delegates have said, if there is another €20 million approximately to pay out because 190 customers have not yet been contacted, and if there is €150...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I know the bank is not disclosing it. By deduction, however, one realises it is absolutely minuscule. If there is €150 million for the operational cost, if €120 million has been paid out, and if the provision in total is €297 million, my 12 year old son at home could figure out the maximum provision for a fine by the Central Bank.