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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postcode Implementation (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 391. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the contract to design the new postal code system was awarded through an open bidding process; if other bids came in cheaper than a company (details supplied); and under what criteria was that company judged to be the best bidder. [5198/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postcode Implementation (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 392. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will list the bidders for the contract to design a new postal code. [5199/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postcode Implementation (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 393. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff that will be involved in the company contracted (details supplied) to design the new postal code system. [5200/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Postcode Implementation (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 394. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if An Post placed a bid for the contract to design the new postal code system; and if so, the reason it was not deemed to have the most experience and ability to deliver the system. [5201/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Haulage Industry Regulation (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 461. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions that will be taken by his Department to address the concerns of the Irish Road Hauliers Association in respect of the proposed road user levy on HGV vehicles entering the North and Britain; if his attention has been drawn to the effect this will have on exports and also particularly on haulage operators in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (4 Feb 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 699 of 26 November 2013, if he has met with representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association in relation to the proposed road users levy to be introduced by the British Government in respect of HGVs entering the North and Britain; if he has discussed this matter at the North-South Ministerial...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Credit Availability (30 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the credit options or State support a farmer wishing to invest but unable to access funding through the banks might avail of. [4630/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (30 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the number of jobs lost, jobs created and net jobs gained by the Industrial Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland and county enterprise boards on a county basis for each of the past three years. [4730/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (30 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits for potential investors arranged by the Industrial Development Agency on a county basis for the past three years. [4731/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Expenditure (30 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the spend of the Industrial Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland and county enterprise boards on a county basis for each of the past three years. [4732/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, all the Central Bank has done is make people aware that they are being screwed by moneylenders. It has not reduced the rate through which moneylenders are screwing customers and it knows, through the most recent data, that moneylenders continue to have a grip on these individuals, with 38% having loans for over five years. Section 99 of the Consumer Credit Act is supposed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: We all make mistakes, but it is quite a big one in the report that 77% of respondents, of 500 people surveyed, suggested they had been refused credit. Today, the Central Bank confirmed the figure was 25%. It is quite a big difference and I am surprised at the information. I am glad that it has been corrected, but the written report should also be corrected. During the debate on Committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat. Cuirim fáilte roimh ár gcairde ó Banc Ceannais na hÉireann. I wish to distance myself from the comments made by Deputy Creed who made an outrageous attack on the credit union movement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I did not interrupt Deputy Creed when he attacked what I believe to be the credit union movement. I wish to point out to members that if they believed that these extortionate rates bordered on criminality then they had the option to do something about it when I drafted legislation on behalf of Sinn Féin, when it was debated in the House and called for a cap to be put on interest rates....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Chairman. Some 13 out of 27 EU member states have placed caps on moneylenders. The only legal cap that exists at present has been placed on the credit union movement which has a cap of 12.68% APR. Clearly, the credit union movement cannot compete with the other type of loans because it cannot offer APRs in excess of that rate. If one wants riskier loans to be taken up by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Challenge by whom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: There has been a debate - and I hope that I have been part of the debate - on whether caps should be imposed on moneylenders. I argued that it should be set at 40%. I know that is a lot higher than what the credit union movement suggested to the Minister for Finance three years ago. Has the Minister for Finance or the Central Bank decided to carry out a proper analysis on the introduction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Sheridan believe that the type of cap that we have discussed should go hand in hand with the credit union cap? We should examine the legal cap on credit unions. They could involve themselves more with the 360,000 customer base that moneylenders have at their disposal. Does Mr. Sheridan view it as a dual approach strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask a very simple question. Mr. Sheridan gave us a figure for the number of customers. Therefore, I assume that there have been over 500,000 moneylender loans in the State over the past 12 months. I have made that assumption based on the fact that Mr. Sheridan has said that there are 360,000 customers, 26% of whom are currently paying off at least two loans, and 6% have more than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Report on Licensed Moneylending Industry: Central Bank of Ireland (29 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, I excluded them.