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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I hope in future the Central Bank will not wait five years when customers bring to its attention that they are being fleeced by their banks. That is the point. The bankers would not have owned up to the wrongdoing had the Central Bank not called for an industry-wide review. I appreciate that but the fact that it is being led by the banks themselves is wrong. The Central Bank should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: There is much more we could say on the issue. It infuriates me that this has happened. I know some people personally who were affected and what they have gone through. Returning to the Bill, as Deputy Michael McGrath said, it has passed Second Stage and there was unanimous support for it. There might have been a bit of reluctance from some of the Government parties but the majority of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Earlier, a question was asked about vulture funds increasing rates to 10% and so on. The question was dealt with by other witnesses. The question need not apply only to a vulture fund; it could be a regulated entity such as AIB or Bank of Ireland. The limited powers the Central Bank has basically amount to no powers in this regard. Mr. Sibley can correct me if I am wrong, but if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That is a valid point and I imagine the select committee can deal with that on Committee Stage. Mr. Sibley raised the question of unintended consequences. This is my final issue. I do not have the statement before me, but Mr. Sibley has suggested that the banks could raise interest rates in other areas and that they could raise fees and so on. Has the Central Bank received any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Refurbishment (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to refurbish or engage in any maintenance work of Carndonagh Courthouse, County Donegal. [39255/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if persons in the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal will have to travel outside the peninsula for coroners' inquests in future. [39261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Law (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent change in the Finance Bill to section 110, concerning the carve out for a section 110 company that is involved in the loan origination business, if an Irish non-bank lender operating an origination platform for an investment bank offering finance to the Irish commercial property market would be able to operate in a tax neutral manner...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions, including the date of execution, whereby the full capacity escalation protocol has been implemented at Letterkenny University Hospital in 2016 in response to hospital overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39237/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: For the past two weeks, I have been questioning bankers before the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. Could the Taoiseach address the issue whereby collectively, these banks have robbed their own customers of hundreds of millions of euro? The figures now stretch into 9,000 customers who have been denied tracker mortgage rates. We see banks that...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: There is no accountability. We need to hold those responsible accountable.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Typical.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in instances in which children are in foster care and carers have been instructed to ensure that a child placed in their care attends a certain school as per the child's care plan, the child's medical cards will be accepted for the purpose of school transport via the school transport schemes even if the specified education centre is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of personnel working within Donegal intellectual disability services in tabular form; the contract type, including the duration of same, currently held by each employee working in the service; if an employee is an agency employee or if the person is directly employed by the HSE in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of employees working within Donegal intellectual disability services, and who are employed on short fixed term contracts of employment of periods lesser than one year in duration and will be offered a permanent contract of employment upon the expiry of the former; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38903/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (7 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 231. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to meet with committee members of a patient advocacy group (details supplied) to coincide with his next scheduled visit to Letterkenny university hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39097/16]

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad to hear that. Maybe it was just the Labour Party influence in government just less than a year ago that resulted in a Cabinet decision not to support the amendments. The Bill is a positive step forward; there is no doubt about that. There is no automatic requirement for any legislation to be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny. I acknowledge there are issues with the Bill. I...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé iontach sásta a bheith ag caint ar an mBille seo. Molaim an tAire. Ní hé, ní an tAire atá ann. Is é sin an dara uair. Caithfidh go bhfuil rud éigin san uisce.

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Molaim an Teachta Ó Cuív, ba chóir dom a rá. Nuair a bhí achan duine ag caint faoin méid is a bhí sé ag déanamh don oileán, bhíomar ag smaoineamh ar an am a bhí sé ina Aire. Dhéarfainn le hachan duine, go háirithe iad siúd atá sa Rialtas le dornán blianta anuas, RTÉ a chur ar siúl...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I want to discuss the Commission's expansionary fiscal stance. People in this State would have read the headlines, namely, that the Commission has done a turnaround, austerity is over and now it is all about expansion, which will affect this country. Regarding the Commission's statement on an expansionary fiscal stance two weeks ago, will Mr. Martínez Mongay confirm that it will have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: EU Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs: Discussion (6 Dec 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I just wish to clarify this point and I would like the witness to make it clear. With regard to Ireland, which is in the middle, having not met the medium-term objective and being in the preventative programme, the Commission statement does not allow us to increase the fiscal space available to us. Is the Commission recommending that we use the fiscal space available to us in next year's budget?