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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: We are cancelling their contracts, if that is the case.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Are there termination payments that will accrue from this section in the Bill?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: When the board goes, therefore, they go with it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: What of amendment No. 47? The Minister did not discuss it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is the intention of the NTMA to use PPS numbers with prize bonds. Will this happen without delay?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It will be more difficult to buy prize bonds for one's nephew or niece. One will need his or her PPS number.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: There are two deletions in Part 2 of Schedule 2, the amendments to the Ombudsman Act 1980, which relate to the National Development Finance Agency and the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission. Obviously, that is because both agencies will be dissolved as part of the legislation.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: My focus is on the amendments to the Ombudsman Act 1980. Can the Minister of State clarify which provisions are being affected?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Is it that they are removed from recourse to the ombudsman?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The agencies will cease to exist when the presidential seal is put on the legislation. The effect of the provision we are deleting was to give individuals recourse to the financial ombudsman. That was the reason for the Schedule in the first place. Is that not correct? Were these agencies exempted from the Ombudsman Act? Is it that they no longer need to be exempt as they are being dissolved?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: In relation to technical amendments on Report Stage, can we have the notes circulated?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It would avoid us having to wait on the floor of the Dáil if we could have that before hand.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: My first question is one I raised last week. Can the Taoiseach clarify when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will issue regulations under subsection 20(6) of the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009? These are the regulations that will allow local authorities to vary local property tax rates by a factor of 15%. As the Taoiseach knows, local authorities do not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (2 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the nature of the mortgages sold by Bank of Ireland (ICS) to Dilosk Limited that are PDHs or buy to lets. [28564/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation (2 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if the sale of ICS loans to Dilosk Ltd. includes the entire ICS loan book; if it includes the entire mortgage platform; if the value of the total transfers from ICS will match the assessment of the value he gave Dáil Éireann during recent debates of €1 billion. [28608/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (2 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the sale of ICS loans to Dilosk Ltd. will help create greater competition in the mortgage sector as the company itself states it has a particular focus on residential investment properties for buyers of family homes as opposed to buy to lets. [28609/14]

Other Questions: NAMA Code of Conduct (3 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there is an appropriate period of time allocated for notice of leave and cooling-off periods for senior staff in the National Asset Management Agency in view of the new approach of accelerated disposals. [28492/14]

Other Questions: NAMA Code of Conduct (3 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: For some time now, and the past couple of months in particular, high profile members of NAMA staff and executives have been leaving their positions in NAMA to take up occupations in the private sector. While that in itself is not a key issue, what is at issue is that because some of those staff have taken up employment in companies that are involved in property development there could be a...

Other Questions: NAMA Code of Conduct (3 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister his response, which is the same as that given by him in the House on 4 March in response to another parliamentary question. My question is whether, in light of the asset disposal within NAMA and the decision of one of its executives to take up a position in the private sector, there are adequate cooling-off periods in place. I am well aware of what Matheson's advised...

Other Questions: NAMA Code of Conduct (3 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.