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- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Here we are summonsed at short notice without any real information, bar the leaks we have seen in the media over the past several weeks. Obviously, the Government’s spin doctors went into hypermode trying to set the public up for what would be a great new dawn heralded by this Government after four years of austerity. We have had selective leaks from Ministers and this was to be the...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Instead what we have is this set piece. In the past, we would have had the publication of the update for the stability programme which was then scrutinised by the finance committee, looking at the macroprojections and risks in all of the pages that we do not have time to read here today. Instead, the Government went with an election salvo, trying to suggest to the people that the bad old...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It stated this on the impact of budget 2015 and water charges. It has produced nice graphs to show this too. This is a Government in denial. A fair recovery could start today with a commitment to abolish Irish Water and water charges. That is what Sinn Féin would do.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: A fair recovery would mean the end of the family home tax.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: A fair recovery must mean an end to pushing more of the tax burden on to the narrow shoulders of struggling families.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Ministers do this every time when I stand up to speak.
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I did not open my mouth when the Ministers had 45 minutes to give their addresses. I have only started and, again, they are bickering, sniping and all the rest because the truth is sometimes hard to swallow. I understand their big day is not going down as well as it was planned in the strategy rooms of Labour and Fine Gael. The truth is that the Government has shifted the tax burden on...
- Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It is widely accepted that these involve a large element of financial chicanery and accounting practises that are designed to avail of very low taxation rates. I am not saying all of it, but much of it has little to do with the real economy in Ireland. The CSO has been talking about contract manufacturing which bumped up GDP growth in 2014. I am sure the Minister will not deny those facts....
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revise the structure of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16349/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will stall the sale of any more loan books at Permanent TSB, until such time as legislation is enacted to regulate all mortgage book owners. [16761/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 258. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a check up in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16361/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will provide a family (details supplied) in County Donegal with a hospital bed to enable the family to provide full-time home care for an elderly parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16813/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (28 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the pass rate per county of the small public service vehicles entry test for the taxi industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16359/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: No, it's a briefing document.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus cuirim fáilte roimh an bheirt chuig an coiste fiosrúcháin. Can I just ask you, to start off with, Mr. Sheehy, to your knowledge, was there a practice of restructuring criticised loans, you know, for example, agreeing to moratoriums, interest-only, interest roll-up or extensions in the terms and conditions in the period of 2006 to 2008?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: That's fair enough. In normal times it's standard practice in banking to do this. In relation to that period, 2006 and 2008, did you see an increase of the type of restructuring in the way that I've outlined for large property ... commercial property exposures?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And would this ... by restructuring the loans, would this put these loans ... would they move them from a category of criticised to uncriticised loans?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: That's not the question. Which ... by doing this, by rolling up interest, by restructuring them, does it move it from a category of criticised loan to a performing loan?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: But it moves them-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (29 Apr 2015)
Pearse Doherty: But it moves them out of criticised.