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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can I just ask one more question? I appreciate that those measures can be got around, as you have said in terms of the 1970s and 1980s, but if we look at Anglo Irish Bank, for example, its lending was in commercial property. There was a massive concentration on commercial property. If we had applied the rules on credit limits would it not have been next to impossible to get around those...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: With others, the Governor has taken up the issue of my question in terms of being hooked on one issue. I am sure Professor Honohan understands that is very important the information he gives to the committee is evidence and the question I had and what he gave earlier on was that there was no policy of non-intrusive regulation. He has retracted that, which I welcome, but it is not about...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, when I am finished with the question. There are two things I want to bring up. One is in relation to the phone calls with the ECB. Can the Governor elaborate on that and the Trichet phone call in particular? Was there a phone call between Trichet and the Minister, Brian Lenihan, as the latter said publicly in the RTE documentary, where he left a voicemail on Saturday the 27th, which...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, there would be a cost to the State. If the Governor is suggesting that what David Doyle has said is that this is with capital, it is not a suggestion for the first time that this was not a simple liquidity crisis, but was rather an issue of capital. It was a recognition on 26 September that there was a need for capital injections in the banks.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If memory serves me, the Governor says that when he spoke to Mr. Doyle, his concept was that it was with capital, not after capital.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Quite a large number of people attended that meeting including those from the NTMA, the Department of Finance, Merrill Lynch, the financial regulator's office, and the Central Bank. Were any of those people spoken to in relation to Mr. Doyle's suggestion that the minute of that meeting was inaccurate and that he did not suggest there were losses of that nature in either of the banks?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What about the ECB phone call and voicemail?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Governor asked Trichet, with whom he served on the ECB?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Just to be clear, this is in an RTE documentary where Mr. Lenihan says there was a voicemail.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It was the documentary. Did the Governor ask him about the voicemail specifically?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It was the late Brian Lenihan himself who said in the documentary that Jean Claude Trichet left a message on his phone on Saturday the 27th, which he received when he picked up the voicemail the following Sunday, and it said "You must save your banks at all costs". Is that not a case of "We are giving you a blank cheque to do whatever you wish"?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It did. What about the promissory note?

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh agus tacaím leis an rún atá curtha síos ag mo pháirtí agus go háirithe ag an Teachta Dála O'Brien anocht. I gcroílár an rún seo tá an scairt atá ag dul amach anseo sa Dáil anocht agus is í sin go gcuirfeadh an athchóiriú atá molta don Theastas Sóisearach ar athlá agus...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Services (20 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to facilitate a return of credit union services to the people of Newbridge, County Kildare; his plans to use part of the building for these services. [2298/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 488. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has had a lunch-time service decreased from five days per week to three days per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2860/15]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: There should not be pre-conditions.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of goods destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners, Customs and Excise in the each of the past five years. [2874/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of goods sold by the Revenue Commissioners, Customs and Excise in each of the past five years. [2875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Proposed Legislation (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of the proposed insurance Bill; and if it will prevent another situation such as that relating to the collapse of Setanta Insurance from affecting customers here. [2876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information on the Killybegs jobs initiative which was established in 2011; the names of the members of the initiative’s high level group; the expenses claimed by the members of this task force; the minutes of the meetings of this task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2895/15]