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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Ms Ní Chaithnía has answered my key question. I have a second point that I wish to raise. The National Women's Council talked about equality and gender budgeting.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: My party has been to the fore in trying to pursue and introduce the Scottish model in this House, along with others. We know that the new budgetary committee will consider the matter in some fashion. It is one of the things that we tried to do in the Finance Bill. We wanted equality budgeting, that would encompass gender budgeting, included in the Finance Bill. Unfortunately, it was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Social Justice Ireland made an excellent contribution to the debate. We all rely on it analysis and the facts and figures provided by it. On the first-time buyer's scheme - the help-the-builders' scheme - Social Justice Ireland stated it was pointless. Did it arrive at that opinion before the Central Bank changed the macro prudential rules? Will it elaborate on the reasons it believes it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: National Women's Council and Social Justice Ireland (30 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: While I agree with the analysis, let me play devil's advocate. While the Government would not admit to this - Fianna Fáil allowed this measure to come into being - the reality is that the scheme will push up house prices because developers claim their profit margins are not large enough to make it viable for them to start building. The Central Bank's measure is that property prices...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rehabilitation Training Allowance Payments (30 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect payment from the temporary rehabilitation remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37788/16]

Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé iontach sásta a bheith ag labhairt anocht ar an ábhar seo. Tá mé sásta go mbeidh mo pháirtí ag tabhairt tacaíochta don Bhille seo le dul tríd go Céim an Choiste. I am delighted to be speaking and I am glad this party will support the passage of this Bill to the next Stage. If it passes tonight the next Stage will be critical...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the action which will be taken to recoup the pension tax relief given to the €73 million transferred overseas (details supplied); the anti-avoidance measures which can be put in place to stop this happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37114/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide for each bank the State has a share in, the number of cases being investigated by the bank as part of its review into the sale of tracker mortgages; when each bank will conclude its investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37433/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which each State backed bank has admitted it was at fault with regard with regard to the tracker mortgage investigations being undertaken by banks; the number of these cases in which the bank has made a redress arrangement with the mortgage owner; the number of legal cases being taken overall per bank; the number within those that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Vacancies (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to complaints from companies concerning the effectiveness of an online vacancy and job-matching service (details supplied), specifically the low number of applicants yielded from the advertisement of opportunities on the site; the process by which notifications of new vacancies are communicated to his Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (29 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 760. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if plans are being considered to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, concerning Sunday premiums and supplemental provisions in order to provide greater clarity to both workers and employers as to the definition of reasonable paid allowances, pay increases and-or paid time off work; and if she will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Mr. Byrne. I also welcome the information he has provided to the committee to help us in our endeavours this morning. Will Mr. Byrne explain to us the information on page 6 of the document we have received? We asked for data in tabular form on the total remuneration package for employees. Mr. Byrne provided us with a table suggesting nobody had a total remuneration package in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I think the bank is being a bit too clever for itself on this issue, with respect. We ask very clearly for the total remuneration package. The annual accounts have the total remuneration package. We are aware of it, and we just wanted it for ease of access and reference. The bank decided to exclude the pension part and did not state it is excluding it. I will not dwell on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: With regard to the announcement yesterday on first-time buyers and the macro prudential rules, the bank supported the Banking and Payments Federation submission on increasing the 90% loan to value rate from €220,000 to €300,000. Is Mr. Byrne surprised or can he comment on the fact that Governor of the Central Bank went way beyond what the federation was looking for and got rid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I understand, but my specific question was what impact, if any, Mr. Byrne thinks this will have on house prices when one looks at both schemes combined. I will give him an example. Let us say I am a first-time buyer who is borrowing from a body in the AIB group, such as EBS, and I wish to purchase a house for €300,000. The deposit I must put together now is €9,000, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I do not underestimate the challenges Mr. Byrne inherited in terms of the amount of the bank's losses and some of the practices that took place in the bank during the height of the boom. We are approaching the end of this year and at the mid-point of the year there were 13,325 principal dwelling homes in mortgage arrears of 90 days or more. Can Mr. Byrne give a best estimate of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on to another issue, but with respect, it is the same spiel – engagement, engagement, engagement - but there must be a point where the situation is resolved and the bank does something different. The bank holds 569 vacant properties following repossessions. Permanent TSB is also owned by the State and when one takes the properties owned by the two institutions, more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I will go to the final issue, namely, tracker mortgages but I do not believe we share the same concern. Given that we pumped €21 billion into the bank, I believe AIB should announce today to the committee that the 569 houses will be made available immediately to deal with the pressures experienced by people who are in emergency accommodation. The houses are lying vacant. It is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: It is 13% of the bank's loan to value and 17% of its loan take-up was done on an exception basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Allied Irish Banks (24 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I mentioned the 13% and 17% given that the witnesses provided it to us in the information. The bank was entitled to 15% loan to value exemptions and 20% on the loan to income. However, the bank finished with 17% in the scope period. Are we to read from this that nobody who applied to the bank was deemed affordable but could not get the lending because of the rules? Was this was the...