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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (24 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 495. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal may expect to be transferred from Letterkenny General Hospital to Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8272/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (24 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who are educated in the North of Ireland and who undertake A level examinations, yet who reside in the South of Ireland, will be accepted onto the higher education access route admissions scheme, when applying through the Central Applications Office for college places for autumn 2015; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (24 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of loans Irish Water has; the value of each loan; the name of the lender; the interest rate on each loan; and if each loan is secured or unsecured. [7676/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (24 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the poor state of repair of Fintra bridge in Killybegs, County Donegal; if he will provide funding in order that improvements to the bridge can be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8213/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an tUasal Connor. In your 2012 co-authored paper, The U.S. and Irish Credit Crises: Their Distinctive Differences and Common Features - I think we have given you notice that I would be asking questions in relation to this paper - the following point is made. A key feature of an asset price bubble is that "traders are often not interested in the asset for its...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: As you are probably aware, if you are following the inquiry - it is clear from your testimony that you are - the inquiry will move into the property, State and finance nexus quite soon and it will look at the relationships between finance, property and the political and State institutional worlds. With that in mind, in that paper I mentioned, the following point is made: "Another source of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: This is something the committee will have to examine. You are the person who made this claim. The effort is to either back up that claim or withdraw it. Do you stand over that claim?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. In the same paper, Professor Connor uses a phrase the committee has heard on a number of occasions, with Dublin being described in the pre-crisis period as the "Wild West of European finance". The paper states: "Starting in the early 1990s, the Irish government made a strategic decision to become a world-leader in 'offshore' financial services." Among the attractions of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Professor Walsh said earlier in response to Senator MacSharry that to go against the rules is not that wise. Would it be reasonable or not to say that accountancy rules are powerful tools for framing what passes as normal behaviour?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Professor Walsh has written about this in a paper he co-authored entitled From Moral Evaluation to Rationalisation where it says that, "Creating visibilities of payment behaviour, accounting numbers became powerful disciplinary tools in constructing the norm and punishing the deviant." Would it be reasonable to say that accountancy rules are powerful tools in framing what passes as normal...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Would it be fair to say that the accounting rules are informed by that tension between what would be regarded as normal behaviour and what would be regarded as deviant behaviour?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I will move on, but Professor Walsh has said, "accounting numbers became powerful disciplinary tools in constructing the norm and punishing the deviant". How are accounting numbers a powerful tool in constructing the norm? Do they set the agenda of what is normal or not? Would Professor Walsh like more time?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: If today's accountancy standards were applied to the 2008 Anglo Irish Bank balance sheet, would an audit still find on 30 September 2008 that the bank would make a profit just shy of €500 million after tax?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Would an auditor have knowledge of the fact there was inadequate loan documentation for some loans? The chief executive of NAMA, the National Asset Management Agency, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, said in 2010: [NAMA’s] our own detailed due diligence on a loan by loan examination has revealed a troubling picture of poor loan documentation, of assets not properly legally secured and of...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The questions are specific. We know NAMA paid just shy of €32 billion for these loans. We know €477 million of a write-down was given to NAMA, a large portion of €32 billion, as a result of poor documentation. Is this something an auditor is supposed to pick up? Should an auditor have picked up that €1 out of every €60 of the loans transferred to NAMA...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I wish to delve into this figure issue further. It seems that this was the motivator for the witnesses' request to address the committee. I would like Mr. O'Callaghan to clarify for the committee a statement which was given by Mr. O'Leary. Mr. O'Callaghan takes issue with the statement and the impression which was given. Mr. O'Callaghan states that Mr. O'Leary's statement gave the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: What about the Circuit Court?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Where would the figure come from? I presume the Department has not plucked the figure of 600 from the sky. Given the fact that the Office of the Appeal Commissioners had been in correspondence with the Department last year telling it not to use these figures, why would the Department come before this committee and state something that the commissioners have refuted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So there are not 600 cases under appeal for more than five years. I assume there are not 30 cases that have been under appeal for more than ten years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Draft Heads of Finance (Tax Appeals Commission) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Take me through this like a child, to use that phrase. If somebody makes an appeal on a tax issue, whether it is corporation tax, a large tax bill, the plastic bag levy or property tax, is the Office of the Appeal Commissioners notified of each and every appeal?