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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Surely that is an assessment that should be made with a view to pointing out to the European Union that it is absolutely ridiculous to allow a group of citizens to go somewhere 1,000 miles away so as to trade from a distance and not be under the same scrutiny that they would otherwise be under if they traded at home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The European Union, has been ramming through the services directive and other such measures, and has been promoting the so-called freedom to make profit in any corner from any corner. Does that not expose some of the flaws? It is obvious that if a company operating in Ireland were regulated here, the regulation would be more stringent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: This Central Bank should make representations to the EU bureaucracy in that regard. How many staff were in the firm's Blanchardstown office?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: That would be an interesting one to probe also. Was this just a kind of shop front?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: What kind of suspicions put the delegates on the trail of the company to begin with? Why were people suspicious? I am not asking who made statements but what was said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Did some brokers, for example, feel the premiums were too low given the amounts in question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Have the Maltese sent the fraud squad to this company?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Did I hear correctly that the claims submitted so far amounted to approximately €35 million? How much would a company normally have to hold in reserve in banks to provide for such an eventuality? Can we have a rough estimate of how much should be held in the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Therefore, this company, understanding the business in the way it should, would have had at least €35 million already.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: There is a huge difference of approach between our view of how the disastrous crisis of housing need is to be resolved. The Minister of State keeps repeating that his party and the Government are well aware of the extent of the crisis, which raises the question of why the Government has let it get to this extreme. I listened with some incredulity to the Tánaiste and Minister for Social...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public sector workers on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [29685/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the present situation of the sale of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage loan book; if he will stop the sale of any further performing mortgage loans; and the restrictions he will place on any new owners of these mortgage loans. [30220/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30401/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30399/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 219. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30403/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public sector workers who are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in her Department. [30405/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 290. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30395/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 319. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30397/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 354. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30400/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Data (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 367. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of public sector workers that are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30398/14]