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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the types of motoring offences which she intends, when the Spent Convictions Bill 2012 is enacted, will be expunged and will not be expunged, after a period of time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to change the eligibility criteria for personal insolvency arrangements, as regards public office holders and members of An Garda Síochána. [19861/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ar cuireadh an easpa acmhainní cuí múinteoireachta atá ar fáil ag scoil áirithe i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil) in iúl di; an gcuirfidh sí maoiniú breise ar fáil ionas go bhféadfaidh an scoil an cúntóir teanga reatha atá acu a fhostú ar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the 2014-2015 academic year, if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of Student Universal Support Ireland applicants, per county, who, upon revision of their application having been carried out, have had their student grant revoked, and their eligibility subsequently refused, and whereby applicants have since been...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 921. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the legislative changes, including changes to secondary legislation, required to implement the policy announcement of 13 May 2015 on mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19815/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 922. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the bodies, persons and organisations he has consulted with prior to his announcement of 13 May 2015 related to mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19818/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 923. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of companies or persons contracted to provide advice or expertise prior to his announcement of 13 May 2015 related to mortgage arrears, and in each case if he will provide the financial details of the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19821/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 974. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the increasing number of applicants who are having their applications for planning permission refused by planning authorities due to the fact that the sites in question are located within close proximity to a particular national secondary road (details supplied) in County Donegal; his views on the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte roimh an tUasal Hurley. I just want to pick up on that point. You've made the point a number of times this morning that the financial stability was sound at that period and in today's ... in your view today that it changed as the international crisis developed. Is that your assessment and can you put a date on when that international...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Hurley, maybe I didn't make my point clear ... clear enough. I understand from your testimony this morning that you still believe that the financial stability of the ... of the system was sound up until the international crisis. Am I correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ----- in my belief? I am correct. And in terms of the international crisis, as you say it developed ... that changed the financial stability of the system. When ... what period are we talking about?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So so your testimony is ... your testimony today is the financial stability ... financial stability was sound up until the period of 2008-2009. And if that is your view today, can I ask you how you can ... how you can express that view given what we know today ... in terms of credit concentration limits, in terms of over-exposure to property, in terms of a commercial and housing property...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Hurley, with respect, I am asking you not what ... what you said in your reports at that time. I'm asking you for your view today, which ... you've expressed your view that the financial stability of the system was sound up until the period of 2008. And again, financial stability in ... and it's in the memorandum of understanding in Vol. 1: "A financial stability matter may include but...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that Mr. Hurley. Again, I am not referring to the assessments that you made in the years of the financial stability reports. I am actually asking your view today, in retrospect, and what you've said is that you believe that the financial stability was sound up until the period of 2008. Do you stand over the fact that today, in 2015, you still are of the view that financial...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: My question is quite simple. You've made the point that you believe the financial stability of the system was sound up until the period of 2008. Today is 2015. I am asking you how do you stand over those comments that the individual institutions which were part of that financial stability were sound up until that period, given all that we know in the intervening years? Do you still ......

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I'll move on because quite a bit of my time has gone on that simple question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What do you see as your main objectives as Governor of the Central Bank after the regulatory restructuring of 2008?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. The memorandum of understanding, and this is in Volume 1 of the evidence book, page 29-32. The memorandum of understanding between the Central Bank and the regulator dealt with the responsibilities of both the CBFSAI and the ... IFSRA. Was the excessive credit growth of the banks a development that should have been dealt with by the Financial Regulator or by the Central Bank?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can you outline to the committee your responsibility to analyse micro-prudential ... the micro-prudential health of the financial system?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (21 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So, Governor, you were, under the memorandum of understanding - again, this is on page 30 - your responsibility was, where appropriate, to analyse the micro-prudential health of the ... of the system. Is that correct?