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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (1 Jul 2015)

Pearse Doherty: That's fine. It's all the market's fault, in your view, in that area. But can I put it to you, and I mentioned this here, a review of the 400 top earners in Ireland during 2002 and 2001 ... and they benefitted ... the review shows that the way that they were able to reduce their effective tax rate was through these schemes. These schemes that allowed you to have the schemes such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when it is expected that an application for a carer's allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25824/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in relation to subsidiary employment and entitlement to jobseeker's benefit, if she is aware of the large number of persons whose claims for jobseeker's benefit are being refused on the grounds that they are seasonally employed in fishing and/or fish processing and/or are self-employed farmers, despite the fact that they had previously qualified...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Fees (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 253. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the Supreme Court judgment in the case of the National Asset Management Agency and the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information, the total legal fees incurred by the agency in the case to date; and the estimate of all legal costs, including those of the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information. [26060/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Data (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of applications his Department has received, in tabular form by county, from those wishing to participate in the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the number of applicants classified as being hill farmers and commonage farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25835/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 360. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the criteria employed when assessing certain public events for the purpose of charging organisers for policing services; her views that the practice of charging small community and voluntary groups as well as non-profit organisations for policing services is acceptable; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 406. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive currently provides funding to fund general practitioner out-of-hours cover; if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of such funding which has been allocated per region since 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25722/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding which has been made available to the out-of-hours general practitioner service Now Doc Donegal in tabular form since the year 2010; the way this funding was utilised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25723/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 491. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (30 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 614. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the increasing frequency of rental tenants in private accommodation receiving termination notices by banks due to the failure of landlords to keep up with mortgage repayments; his plans to amend existing legislation in order to increase the various periods of termination notice afforded to tenants of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Economic Dialogue (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the persons and organisations invited to take part in the National Economic Dialogue on 16 and 17 July 2015. [25457/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have an application for a medical card processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25476/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte roimh an tUasal Honohan. Agus go n-éirí an bóthar leat agus tú ag éirí as do phost, agus tuigim fosta go seo an chéad píosa fianaise a tugadh dúinn i nGaeilge, leis an seanfhocal a thabhair tú isteach le d'óráíd so tá fáilte roimhe sin fosta. Can I ask you, first...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can you give, maybe, the committee an example of two powers that you have now, as Governor of the Central Bank, that your predecessor didn't have that would have had or possibly could have had an impact in the period running up to 2008?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Thanks for that, Professor Honohan. Would I be right in saying that, like, the two examples that you gave me were the increase levels of fines, but the fines ... there was a level of fine that existed to your predecessor which was not utilised, and the second one was the loan-to-value ratios that could've ... that the power existed by your predecessor, but wasn't utilised either? So in ......

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. I appreciate that. The IMF mission in 2009 referred to the lack of a resolution regime. Can you explain the delays in initiating such a regime in Ireland, bearing in mind that the UK implemented one by way of its Banking Act in March 2009?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: From instigation ... from the point where a decision was made to introduce that resolution regime to the point where it was published-----

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: -----what type of timeframe are we talking about?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What I'm trying to find out, and maybe you don't know this, but we've had ... we've had evidence to this committee saying that bringing in a resolution regime would have taken too much time, that there was constitutional issues and so on and so forth. But, as you say, we brought in a type of regime in 2010. The question is: how long did it take? Because we brought it in at a certain stage....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (25 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I'll come to that in a while. Can you comment on the Central Bank's analysis carried out to identify the amounts of €3.5 billion in capital for AIB and Bank of Ireland that was announced in 2009, February 2009, was provided at that time? And why did the Government proceed with this amount for AIB given that it ultimately required a capital injection on €19.8 billion?