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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing family allowances (details supplied) by 1%; and the percentage impact this would have on the at risk of poverty rate for persons living in households with children. [54443/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Standards in Public Office Commission (16 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the SIPO law on foreign donations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55013/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (16 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress which has been made to establish a suitable redress scheme for homeowners affected by the issue of defective block work in counties Donegal and Mayo; when such a scheme will be accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1367/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Bord Údarás na Gaeltachta (16 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 1943. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad chuige nach bhfuil bord Údarás na Gaeltachta i bhfeidhm faoi láthair; an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta aici chun bord úr a cheapadh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [1912/18]

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I have been saying it for years and I will say it again. It makes absolutely no sense that the schools which I mentioned - Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair, Scoil Ghort an Choirce, Scoil Rann na Feirste agus Scoil Mhín Tine Dé - are kept out of DEIS status. It does not make any sense whatsoever. The Department has refused freedom of information requests for the criteria it uses. Will...

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: They are being punished for their success.

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Successful schools are punished despite the fact that they are in deprived areas.

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State know what DEIS stands for?

Topical Issue Debate: DEIS Administration (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad that this matter has been selected and to be in the House at 9.15 p.m. debating this issue. I must record that it is disappointing that the Minister is not here tonight to listen to these concerns and that we are dealing with the Minister for State instead. It is not disappointing for me personally but for the children of the schools I will refer to. There is no transparency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Bernard Byrne and Ms Helen Dooley chuig an gcoiste. I would like, first, to ask about Mr. Byrne's involvement with AIB and the position he held in 2010.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. It is important to clarify that Mr. Byrne was not involved with the bank prior to that time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Has Mr. Byrne read Colm Keena's article about the Paradise Papers that refers to AIB?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Byrne dispute its contents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Aside from its balance, does Mr. Byrne dispute the facts presented in the article?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Let us deal with the issue of the court order and Revenue. I ask Mr. Byrne to be helpful to the committee. We may ask a question and he may be able to answer it but I ask him to answer it in the spirt in which we are trying to elicit information, and I sure he will do that. Did the subsidiary of AIB go to the courts in the Isle of Man to ensure it did not have to provide information to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Was there a Revenue request to the offshore subsidiary at that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Did it request the information regardless of its powers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: They never requested the information from AIB plc or from the subsidiary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I cannot recall the detail of the proceedings and I cannot pull up the transcript of it on my mobile phone, but we had the chairperson of the Revenue Commissioners in here. I questioned him. Did Mr. Byrne follow the conversation we had at this committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Paradise Papers (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (14 Dec 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I put it to the chairperson of the Revenue Commissioners that information that was requested was blocked at that time and, to my recollection, he confirmed that was the case. He also confirmed that he had now written to AIB seeking the information given what AIB has put on the record. I think I got this through parliamentary questions that I put down to the Minister - that the bank has...