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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projections for expenditure to account for demographics from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date in tabular form. [15215/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the components of pre-committed capital expenditure in each year from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date; and the gross figures for pre-committed capital expenditure in each year in tabular form. [15214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if correspondence from a person (details supplied) has been received; the efforts being made to address the concerns outlined therein; when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14880/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a home help assistant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15180/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding can be made available to County Donegal to employ home help assistants to alleviate waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15181/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that have been approved for the homecare package but are yet to receive allocated home help assistants in County Donegal since 1 January 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15182/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15246/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 409. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is planned to extend high-speed fibre broadband to St. John's Point, Dunkineely, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14983/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is planned to extend high-speed fibre broadband to Ballycroy, Dunkineely, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if applications for carer’s allowance increase for a qualified child, IQC, payments for foster children are linked to child benefit payments; if so, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14963/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance IQC payments relating to foster children are paid from the date of application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14964/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests to the session. When the Central Bank appeared before the committee last week, I outlined that the intention behind the Bill is not to affect the access to liquidity, passive securitisation or access to ECB collateral, and that will be easily addressed on Committee Stage. I would be surprised if other members had different opinions but that is up to them and the Bill is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It definitely would not because that goes to the core of the Bill, which is that the Bill would not allow without the borrower's consent the bank to sell on the loan to a vulture fund, and that would apply for existing contracts henceforth. That would potentially remove a tool, given that it would be unlikely for many borrowers to give their consent to vulture funds, which I will come to in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In response to earlier questions on the Bill, Mr. Tobin said that it may or may not cause an increase in mortgage interest rates. Which is it? The Department provided the committee with a written submission which was all over the media this morning and gives the impression that the Department had a crystal ball, which enabled it to determine that the Bill would result in higher mortgage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I do not want to nitpick but words are important. Mr. Tobin did not say, "it is likely to increase"; he said, "it will lead to." It is surprising that the Department was able to come to the same conclusion as the IBF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank did not mention it in its opening statement. The conclusion is almost identical to the conclusion the Department reached when Deputy Michael McGrath was pushing through his legislation to regulate vulture funds. That legislation was enacted six months ago. Have interest rates increased, as warned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I do not want to be pedantic but what Mr. Tobin just said is different from what was said earlier. The Department issued a statement, which has been carried in the media, to the effect that this Bill will increase mortgage interest rates. In his opening statement, Mr. Tobin said that may or may not happen and he has now qualified that and said that it is likely it has the potential-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In the submission delivered approximately half an hour ago, Mr. Tobin stated: "Our assessment is that the Bill will lead to higher mortgage interest rates", but the Department is not sure whether it will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is likely to. Okay. In regard to the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Act 2018, in Mr. Tobin's view, how is it the Department's observation did not materialise?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Tobin did not answer my question, which I will rephrase. Six months on from the enactment of Deputy Michael McGrath's legislation why, in his view, did the warning made on the record at that time by the Department of Finance, namely, that that Bill would lead to higher interest rates on consumers, not materialise? One could argue that interest rates have fallen. Has the Department...