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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Coming from a base of 52, what kind of increase can we expect? Are we talking about hundreds or thousands?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Why has there been such reluctance to deploy that? Taking on board Mr. Elderfield's generous interpretation as to why there might be so few, if one forgot we were talking about mortgages and laid aside for a moment the financial difficulty our banks are trying to escape, the principle of split mortgages is a very obvious principle when considering difficulty with stressed debt or the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: To go to another area touched on earlier with regard to implementation of the fitness and probity standards, will Mr. Elderfield read out for us again the statistics he gave to Deputy Ross on how many applications were made and the response of his office?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: So 2,234 were approved, 331 were returned as incomplete and 93 were withdrawn by the applicant.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: A question frequently put to me in my constituency is why more people have not gone to jail over this. Why have more people not been visibly held to account? If Mr. Elderfield were standing in my shoes, what answer would he give?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Another point is with regard to the people needed to do this work. Mr. Elderfield referred twice today in our session to the ability to keep people-----

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: -----in the context of inducements and wages offered elsewhere. I noticed over the weekend that another State body, NAMA, is looking at offering reward schemes to its employees because of the salaries the staff are offered by private companies. Do we pay enough to the people we need to keep them in these roles?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Such as?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Deputy Ross asked about whistleblowing and Mr. Elderfield mentioned in his answer that there were 42 whistleblowers last year. Were they from throughout the entire banking system? Were they from within his organisation?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I want this on the record because we had a discussion about whistleblowing in the Central Bank.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: It was across the entirety of the banking system.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 72 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Regulator (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Mr. Elderfield.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: International Agreements (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if Ireland has a social security agreement in place with Serbia; should one be in place, if an Irish citizen in receipt of disability allowance here would be able to receive a similar assistance payment in Serbia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28746/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 475. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will make a decision on the application to be included in the Government's Area Based Response to Child Poverty Initiative submitted by the Docklands and East Inner City Consortium; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28777/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank Mr. Jacobs, who is a frequent and prominent visitor to the Oireachtas, for his presentation. We have been present during his many presentations on this issue. I have three specific questions. First, how likely is a treaty change in the short term? If such a change is likely, in which area is it likely to be? Second, is he aware of a change in the public perception in the context...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What is the phrase "regressive proportionality"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: What does "digressive proportionality" mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion (18 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: Why is it digressive?

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: The Constitution of 1937 served our country well in many ways and it has stood the test of time. It is useful to consider the context in which it was forged and the challenges our young country faced at the time. Europe was about to enter a war which brought terrible loss of life across the entire Continent. Ireland was emerging from a divisive and bitter Civil War. The Constitution...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (19 Jun 2013)

Paschal Donohoe: 170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on an application submitted by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 to extend their leave to remain here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29612/13]