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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Process (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will identify all non-Government parties which contribute to the drafting of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013. [10503/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Process (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the involvement of a law firm (details supplied) in the drafting of any part of the Irish bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013. [10504/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it expects to realise about €750 million by reversing asset transfers by certain debtors and taking charges over previously unencumbered assets up from a previous estimate of €500 million money realised from these sources will be used to pay down debts...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it expects to realise about €750 million by reversing asset transfers by certain debtors and taking charges over previously unencumbered assets up from a previous estimate of €500 million money realised from these sources will be used to pay down debts...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it expects to realise about €750 million by reversing asset transfers by certain debtors and taking charges over previously unencumbered assets – up from a previous estimate of €500 million money realised from these sources will be used to pay down...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Protection (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Data Protection Commissioner investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former employee of the National Assets Management Agency. [10649/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payment of a student grant award from Student Universal Support Ireland will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10483/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Garda Síochána investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former employee of the National Assets Management Agency. [10648/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the raising of interest rates by AIB on variable rates mortgages; if he will call on the bank to explain their decision and let them know it is unacceptable. [10748/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Tomorrow we will begin to discuss the family home or household tax again. We have already seen the start of the water charges legislation in the House. It was stated earlier in the House that €30 billion of austerity measures have been imposed on the people. Yet perhaps the greatest crisis we are in the middle of - a singular crisis which the Government has not acknowledged - is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: These people are really under pressure. Today I read an article in the newspaper to the effect that the Government will facilitate the repossession of homes. This really puts the fear of God up into people, who are concerned about how they will keep a roof over their heads and pay their mortgage bills. It is a completely different approach from what the Government promised in the programme...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Government stated that it would ask the bank to forego a 0.25% increase. Why has that never materialised? Will the Minister call in the banks now, just as he did less than two years ago, and put it to them in the middle of this mortgage crisis that it makes absolutely no sense to increase the rate? I direct the Minster to my original question: what is his view on the bank increasing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If AIB proceeds with its plan it will be the highest mortgage lender in the State. All it has to do is increase its rates by 30 basis points and it will be the highest. The Minister for Finance owns this bank on behalf of the Irish people. He says it would be wrong to interfere because that is not the way to run the country but he called the banks into Government Buildings. His Deputies...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The figure is 23.5% of domestic mortgages.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It affects 160,000 families.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: While I appreciate the Minister's difficulty, he is trying to ride two horses and keep both options open. He seems to be rowing back on last June's commitment, or at least the commitment given to the people by certain Ministers on the public airwaves at the time. I refer to the idea that we would get back the money pumped into the pillar banks and that it would be fully retrospective. It...

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It was just a question.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To tell the Minister the God's honest truth, he would want to drop some of the bull he is coming out with in response to every question I ask.

Other Questions: Banks Recapitalisation (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I asked a genuine question. I could have started to recite X, Y or Z, but I did not do so. I do not expect the Minister to reveal his negotiating strategy. If he is telling us it is a question of a negotiating strategy, he must intend to go down the road of ESM recapitalisation. If it is not a question of a negotiating strategy, he must be open to the idea of private investors buying...

Other Questions: Mortgage Restructing (28 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Going back to what I said earlier, this is a serious, massive crisis. It was a crisis when the Minister came into office and the number of people in mortgage distress has doubled in the past two years. I want to focus on one bank in particular, AIB. The chief executive of AIB announced - I believe he is genuine - that it is writing to all 33,000 customers who are in mortgage arrears. This...