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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocations for Ireland under each of the ERDF and ESF programmes for 2014-2020. [15553/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contact person or agency for citizens seeking information for each of the ERDF and ESF 2014-2020 programmes. [15554/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of clients ofLegal Aid Board centres which operate a triage system who are getting to see a solicitor within one month. [15566/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who will be the contact agency and-or person for citizens seeking information regarding the EU's rural development fund. [15551/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out Ireland's allocation under the 2014-2020 rural development fund. [15552/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the designated agency or person to be contacted by citizens seeking information regarding the EU's Maritime and Fisheries Fund 2014-2020. [15573/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out Ireland's allocation from the Rural Development Fund 2014-2020 under the EU's Maritime and Fisheries Fund 2014-2020. [15574/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses to the committee and thank them for their engaging presentations. They are experts in the field and I commend them on behalf of all of the people who have approached me and whom I have referred to them. I commend the organisations on the professional way in which they responded to those people. As Deputy Michael McGrath mentioned earlier, this is a prelude to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I received an e-mail earlier today from a young family - younger than mine - which has been offered one of these split products from Permanent TSB in regard to a second home. They family is €220,000 in debt and they have to pay a split mortgage for 22 years, after which they will owe €275,000. They will owe €55,000 more after 22 years of paying back Permanent TSB. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The waiting times for free legal aid are absolutely atrocious and that feeds into it. The code of conduct for mortgage arrears, given its significance for tens of thousands of families, should be statutorily based. Oireachtas Members should take the power to put it on a statutory footing and it should compel banks to examine all of the options. Do all the groups agree with that proposal?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The figure for repossession proceedings for the past six months is 3,321. Three hundred and sixty-seven properties were handed over, and 139 of these, in the last two quarters of last year, were actually forced repossessions. In the Dáil today, the Taoiseach disputed the fact there was one a day, but there are actually two a day, based on those figures, with one a day forced. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The witnesses can think about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I will pick up on the point, because I asked our previous witnesses about repossessions. FLAC had provided figures with regard to the issuing of legal letters. It was that 3,321 legal letters were issued in the last two quarters and it stated this was a ramping up of the number of such letters being issued. In the same period, 367 houses were surrendered or repossessed with 139 of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Why does Mr. Maguire think AIB is the leader in this regard? Is there any indication as to the reason AIB is the driver in respect of the level of repossessions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: As I am conscious that my time is ticking, I have another question for each witness. I took exception to some of Mr. Burgess's last comments on what some have termed to be strategic defaulters, but I actually will take exception to another statement he made earlier when he stated that split mortgages are at the expense of the taxpayer and some people should not be getting them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Some split mortgages. I will ask three questions together, which the witnesses should ponder and then answer. Mr. Burgess argues that some people should not get the mortgages and the taxpayer should not be picking up the bill. However, he also argues that in cases in which someone could pay interest only, this should continue. A split mortgage comprises the parking of a part - it could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: No, I need to get in, because the Vice Chairman will not let me in unless I ask all three questions. I commend all three organisations. As for the Phoenix Project Ireland, if I picked up Ms Sadlier's point correctly, she talked about the unfair line of questioning from the banks. Perhaps she could elaborate on people's position in that regard. In respect of New Beginning, which is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: Discussion (2 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (3 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to make sure the potential sale of €1 billion of mortgages at ICS Building Society does not leave mortgage owners outside the protection of the code of conduct on mortgage arrears. [15757/14]