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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date list of discretionary tax reliefs and the revenue that would be saved, per measure, if these tax reliefs were standardised. [40268/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Road Improvement Schemes (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to reintroduce the bothair aise scheme for residents in the Gaeltacht area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40130/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes Data (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of funding which householders applied for under the better energy homes scheme and the better energy warmer homes scheme in 2012 and the amount available to the schemes in 2013. [40157/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason there is a substantial delay in the processing and administering of the better energy warmer homes scheme for low income households vulnerable to energy poverty; if there has been any improvement made in the administration of the scheme since last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40158/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Yield (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue that would be raised if the non principal private residency charge was retained and increased by €150; or by €200. [40266/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Can I suggest to Mr. Honohan that someone from the Central Bank should go down to any high street shop and buy a tape recorder, and then he should put a couple of people in a room and listen to key people who were involved in Anglo Irish Bank, who said that they picked figures out of their backside to give to the Central Bank, who claimed they were going to go down swinging their arms and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: -----the Sunday Independent released them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The bank has done the bare minimum and listened to the Sunday Independent extracts that we have all listened to. Other material is not in the public domain. Nobody else has access to it bar the Central Bank, an Garda Síochána, the Director of Corporate Enforcement and some former directors of Anglo Irish Bank. We cannot do it. Professor Honohan said earlier that we are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. I only have a couple of minutes left. In September 2011 and again in 2012, the Governor came in here to talk about the issue of mortgage arrears with his arms swinging, saying the banks were not doing enough and were not being aggressive enough and that the Central Bank was breathing down their necks, but the arrears crisis has got worse. I put it to him, as I have done before, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: My first question was whether the Governor concurs with the statement from the Minister for Finance that letters threatening repossession or legal action could not be considered sustainable solutions. Does the Governor agree with that statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, can I get the answer to my question, which I asked within the time allocated to me? It was a very simple question of whether the Governor agrees or disagrees. With respect, the Governor tried to explain it but did not answer the specific question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is the Chairman's job to try to ensure that an answer is given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Governor to the committee. As the Governor said, people were exercised when they heard the Anglo Irish Bank tapes. They are probably more exercised at the statement released by the Central Bank that it will not issue a report. I found it difficult to follow what the Governor was saying about why he has not referred the tapes to the Garda Síochána. The Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I find it difficult to understand why the Governor did not say that to the committee. The Central Bank has not decided to issue a report on any regulatory wrongdoing or regulatory breach-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Governor can reply when I finish the question. The two individuals who played a prominent role in those tapes, which the Governor refers to as being wrong, were kept within the bank for a long period. They were paid bucket loads of money on the watch of the Governor. The Central Bank knew in 2009 that recordings on that telephone line had been requested by the Garda Síochána....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: For clarity, were these the transcripts of the tapes requested by court order by the Garda Síochána from Anglo Irish Bank in March 2009, discussed at the board meeting in 2009 and subsequently given to the Garda Síochána in 2009?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Who provided the Financial Regulator with transcripts of sections of those tapes and why were they not the most important sections?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Governor regret that the Central Bank deemed these two individuals fit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Matters Relating to the Economy: Discussion with Governor of Central Bank (25 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The subject of today's committee meeting is the mortgage issue. However my final question concerns this topic. I am deeply upset that the Central Bank has not issued a report. I take on board the excuses of the Governor but it is in the public interest to make comments known in respect of this. A report should have been issued to the Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director...