Results 24,841-24,860 of 35,894 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (28 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----proves contrary.
- Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: First Stage (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide the Central Bank with the power to direct the covered institutions to lower mortgage interest rates in certain circumstances.Within the first few months of the Government's election, I put it on notice that the banks were ripping off Irish mortgage holders and that the new administration needed to take a firmer line....
- Central Bank (Mortgage Interest Rates) Bill 2015: First Stage (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Topical Issue Matters (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The banking inquiry will be the death of me.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the total fines imposed by the Central Bank of Ireland on financial institutions since 2011; and if he will provide details of each fine. [20895/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, for each year since 2008, who have been disqualified from being a person concerned in the management of a regulated financial service provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20901/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 25 March 2015, if the information requested can be provided on a Dublin basis and a rest of the State basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20932/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Wild Atlantic Way Project (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding possibilities, Government backed schemes and so on that are available for pubs, restaurants and so on located on the Wild Atlantic Way. [20912/15]
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte roimh an tUasal Grimes. Can I ask you ... begin by asking you just what advice was sought by the Department of Finance in relation to the financial stability of the banking sector and/or individual financial institutions? And could you outline to the committee what meetings you participated in with any Government Department to...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Well in the ... not just in the-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The financial stability reports ... or even the year before, was there meetings, was there interactions?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The question, sorry, Mr. Grimes, the question specifically is in relation to advice sought by the Department of Finance in relation to the financial stability of the banking sector or individual institutions so it's meetings in that regard that I'm interested in.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. And outside of the DSG, were there meetings with the Department of Finance or did the Department of Finance seek advice from the Central Bank in relation to the stability of the banking sector or in any individual banking ... bank in the State?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, okay. Can I ask you in ... you've mentioned ... in your opening statement, on page 4, you mention the problems surrounding ELA. If I quote from your statement it says one of the ... one of the ... with the use of ELA, one of the issues with the "use of ELA is that its use required a floating charge on banks' assets that needed to be registered at the Companies Office. New legal...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. You also mention, in relation to ECB liquidity, that it reached €40 billion at the period of September 2008. Can you give us a breakdown of the ECB liquidity to Irish domestic banks and for international banks of that €40 billion?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So was there any liquidity extended to the non-domestic banks - the IFSC banks?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: So when the ECB references the percentage of the entire liquidity that was available to ... at the Irish banking system as a percentage of the entire ECB that was available-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: And are you saying that 80% of that went to banks that were in the IFSC or non-domestic-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: -----on average?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. Did the ECB ever express any concerns, or not, with the quality of assets that were being used as collateral for ECB liquidity purposes in the pre-guarantee period?