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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Bell said that he exercised the veto in only five cases in terms of the personal insolvency arrangements. Do the answers he supplied state the total number of cases that came before him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Is it 100 in total?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Is Mr. Brown surprised at that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: On the solution being offered to the 2,000 non-engagers, how severe is the requirement to be eligible for social housing? Is there much room for objective judgment? A person resident in a house such as Gorse Hill might or might not automatically be on the social housing list. If the bank judges a person to be a significant earner, how severe is the assessment? Could the bank use the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Does the bank have non-engagers above the threshold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Brown said the bank did not select the 2,000, but that they have selected themselves. While I understand the point, the bank selected the 2,000. I am trying to establish that the bank will do "what it says on the tin". The bank selected them on the basis that the threshold of earnings would seem to suggest that in most local authorities they would be eligible for housing.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (6 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance the applicable offences under the Revenue Commissioners' Acts in relation to employers and employees in connection with bogus self-employment claims; the arrangements in place for the prevention, detection and prosecution of such offences; the number of prosecutions and convictions in each of the past 15 years; the new initiatives planned or under way in...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (12 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 424. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advice provided to his Department from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, concerning funding being made available to keep open the women and children's refuge at Cuan Álainn, Cookstown Way, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an estimated commencement date for the building of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18542/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I understand that the Minister for Health is engaged in the other House but I want to bring to his attention, as I am sure does the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, the plight of Cuan Álainn, a women’s and children’s refuge in Tallaght. It was founded in 2012 by the housing association Respond! and has provided a safe harbour for some 64 for women and 84 children...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his response. It seems that the broad orientation of policy he outlined is probably correct. The tragedy, however, is that if we let this facility close it would be very difficult to re-establish it. The Minister of State made the point in his response that Tusla has indicated that it would hope to support such services in the future but in 2015 this...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Island Communities (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 211. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Phase II of the restoration works, to be funded by her Department, will be carried out on an island (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18854/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Let us hope the issue does not become permanent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Will Mr. Masding say a word about where he sees the bank in the medium to longer term? One argument on the standard variable mortgages and other issues is that there is a lack of competition now in the marketplace. How does Mr. Masding see the bank down the road? I will put a separate question as well. How would he like to see it?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (19 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 6 May 2015, the number of times in each of the past ten years that a penalty was imposed on an employer under section 987 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, as amended, for failure to comply with regulations under Chapter 4 of Part 42 relating to the collection and recovery of income tax under the Pay As You...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Infrastructure (26 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 992. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Digital Hub Development Agency property portfolio has been enhanced arising from its collaboration with a company (details supplied); if he will report on progress to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20600/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: If this is Professor Honohan's last meeting, I think we should record our appreciation. He has done the State some considerable service since his appointment and it would be appropriate for this committee to acknowledge that. Professor Honohan made reference to the tracker contract being uniquely expensive to bank shareholders. That is obviously the case. Why has it been so costly to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Professor Honohan also said that if legislation had to be contemplated, it would in all probability have only a modest effect on standard variable rates. He mentioned a timeframe of a few quarters. Does this mean that the Governor of the Central Bank envisages that after a few quarters, interest rates will go in a certain direction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: In terms of some of the statements made after the meeting with the Minister about the prospect of a modest reduction or an alternative offer, what merits does Professor Honohan see?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland (28 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I have a few questions that do not relate to mortgages, and we might come back to them. What in the name of God is the reason for the delay in fixing the rotten tooth on the quays? I saw it on television last night when we were showing off Dublin to its best. Here we saw-----