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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: As you are probably aware, if you are following the inquiry - it is clear from your testimony that you are - the inquiry will move into the property, State and finance nexus quite soon and it will look at the relationships between finance, property and the political and State institutional worlds. With that in mind, in that paper I mentioned, the following point is made: "Another source of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This is something the committee will have to examine. You are the person who made this claim. The effort is to either back up that claim or withdraw it. Do you stand over that claim?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. In the same paper, Professor Connor uses a phrase the committee has heard on a number of occasions, with Dublin being described in the pre-crisis period as the "Wild West of European finance". The paper states: "Starting in the early 1990s, the Irish government made a strategic decision to become a world-leader in 'offshore' financial services." Among the attractions of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Professor Walsh said earlier in response to Senator MacSharry that to go against the rules is not that wise. Would it be reasonable or not to say that accountancy rules are powerful tools for framing what passes as normal behaviour?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Professor Walsh has written about this in a paper he co-authored entitled From Moral Evaluation to Rationalisation where it says that, "Creating visibilities of payment behaviour, accounting numbers became powerful disciplinary tools in constructing the norm and punishing the deviant." Would it be reasonable to say that accountancy rules are powerful tools in framing what passes as normal...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Would it be fair to say that the accounting rules are informed by that tension between what would be regarded as normal behaviour and what would be regarded as deviant behaviour?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on, but Professor Walsh has said, "accounting numbers became powerful disciplinary tools in constructing the norm and punishing the deviant". How are accounting numbers a powerful tool in constructing the norm? Do they set the agenda of what is normal or not? Would Professor Walsh like more time?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If today's accountancy standards were applied to the 2008 Anglo Irish Bank balance sheet, would an audit still find on 30 September 2008 that the bank would make a profit just shy of €500 million after tax?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Would an auditor have knowledge of the fact there was inadequate loan documentation for some loans? The chief executive of NAMA, the National Asset Management Agency, Mr. Brendan McDonagh, said in 2010: [NAMA’s] our own detailed due diligence on a loan by loan examination has revealed a troubling picture of poor loan documentation, of assets not properly legally secured and of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The questions are specific. We know NAMA paid just shy of €32 billion for these loans. We know €477 million of a write-down was given to NAMA, a large portion of €32 billion, as a result of poor documentation. Is this something an auditor is supposed to pick up? Should an auditor have picked up that €1 out of every €60 of the loans transferred to NAMA...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Health and Safety (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures taken to ensure that workers at a social welfare office in Letterkenny, County Donegal, were protected, amidst concerns about asbestos in their place of work, following recent renovations; the tests that were carried out before workers were allowed to return to the affected offices; the results of these tests; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the frustration among the public and business community that automated teller machines (ATMs) in the State are often not working, or have insufficient cash, particularly at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7957/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or the Central Bank of Ireland have any means of ascertaining the number of automated teller machines, ATMs, working, and able to dispense all the requested cash, at a given time, at State owned banks; if so, if he will provide those figures for the week to 7 February 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7958/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on commitments provided by banks that more automated teller machines (ATMs) will provide €10 notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in detail, all the spending and investments from the National Pensions Reserve Fund's discretionary portfolio; including the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund since March 2011, showing the balance at the end of each year, and as of 1 February 2015. [8079/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the European Commission regarding the expenditure benchmark, and its application to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8137/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Stability and Growth Pact (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Budget Statement 2016 will be drafted with full regard to the expenditure benchmark; and further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 3 December 2014, if he will provide an update on these figures. [8138/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 472. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8120/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 486. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for Saint James' Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8208/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (24 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe a person can expect to wait on a decision from the client registration unit, in relation to a discretionary medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8209/15]