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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Honohan believe that as a result of this directive, lenders will have to consider the option of partial forgiveness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is what it states. It makes it clear that a suite of options are included. Those include the offer of a payment holiday, partial repayments, currency conversion, partial forgiveness and debt consolidation. One of the problems in this State is that certain providers use some of those measures but none use them all. This hard law now states that a reasonable offer is not a reasonable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: As I am conscious others are waiting, I may come in again later. The directive, however, develops a secondary market for non-performing loans. We have seen in recent times the treatment of borrowers by vulture funds compared with mainstream lenders. The interest rate environment is clear in that regard. Is Mr. Honohan concerned that the directive will provide for further securitisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine, but the directive takes this into a whole new space where it is not going to be our Central Bank that is regulating these credit service providers. There is no point in talking to the Central Bank any more because this credit directive allows for the central bank in Poland, Italy, Malta or wherever else to regulate. Some have expressed concern that there are different rules...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is not the weather, no.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Are we now going to have a situation where one's debt can be held by credit service providers in a jurisdiction that has weaker consumer protection rights than we have here, despite all the challenges here, or a different legal framework? They can then be passported in and are not regulated by the Central Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Exactly. As we discussed earlier, how we transpose the EU directive is crucial.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Under this directive, might we see a race to the bottom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I will leave it at that and will come in again later, if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That was the Dunne case in terms of the moratorium. That part was-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Given Fine Gael's disastrous handling of policing and justice and the reduction in the number of gardaí we have also seen in County Donegal, whether you look at the figures from 2002, 2012 or the past three years the numbers for our county have gone down. On top of that more than one in ten is out sick. These are either people who have been assaulted or injured in the course of their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the shortage of Irish-speaking gardaí working in County Donegal and in Gaeltacht regions; if any plans have been put in place to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54263/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom ceist na ngardaí agus an Ghaeilge a ardú leis an Aire Stáit. Táimid ag iarraidh a chinntiú go bhfuil Gaeilge líofa ag gardaí atá lonnaithe i stáisiúin Gaeltachta. I wish to raise the issue of Irish-speaking gardaí working in Gaeltacht regions. Will the Minister provide an assessment of how much progress has been made...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that the Minister of State has put new information on the record. I submitted a parliamentary question to the Minister for Justice, which gave me the breakdown of every Garda station in the Gaeltacht regions, including County Donegal. It comprised more than 300 gardaí in County Donegal and suggested there were only nine with Gaelic as a native language or with proficiency. I...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody who spoke on the legislation, especially those who supported it. After three years of the Minister of State's Government being in office, the homelessness crisis has never been worse. That is a blatant, blunt fact. Each month it gets worse. New records are broken every single month by this Government when it comes to homelessness. As shocking as these new records are,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: For the second day in a row we have more than 700 patients who have been admitted to our hospitals and cannot get a bed. There were 57 yesterday in Letterkenny University Hospital and 47 today in University Hospital Limerick. For the second day in a row there are more than 100 patients admitted who cannot get a bed in that hospital. We have ambulances outside that cannot offload patients...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue that will be raised in each of the years 2024 to 2030 by the proposed increases in all classes of PRSI by 0.1 percentage points in 2024 and 2025, 0.15 percentage points in 2026 and 2027, and 0.2 percentage points in 2028, disaggregated by PRSI class, employer, employee and self-employed, in tabular...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of an invalidity pension application (details suppled) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54603/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 491. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54962/23]