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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I will be as brief as possible. We all know there has been a great deal of reporting on the amount of money that has been injected into this institution - €4 billion since 2009 - but there has been widespread reporting of the financial cliff the bank faces early next year in respect of €2.7 billion worth of bonds that are due to mature. Can the witnesses say whether these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that. Does one of the options include the possibility of further recapitalisation by taxpayers of that bank if the strategy does not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Specifically, €2.7 billion worth of bonds will mature next April.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: There will be stress tests in all institutions next year and if the bank dips into its capital it will be questionable whether it can meet the stress test criteria. Can Mr. MacSharry say that the burden of the €2.7 billion financial cliff that the bank faces next April will not in any way, shape or form be borne by Irish taxpayers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. MacSharry believe the bank is doing enough for people in mortgage distress?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Role and Contribution of Public Interest Directors in Financial Institutions: Discussion with Permanent TSB (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The option that people are looking for, given that the bank has been recapitalised to deal with the fact that these mortgages will not be paid in full, is for the banks to write off their debts, because they are in financial or mortgage distress and personal turmoil. They want the banks to write off the debts of people who simply will not at this point in time or at any time in the future be...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if enhanced ambulance and paramedic services will be made available in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57017/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current position regarding the development of new primary care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57016/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (19 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the decision to impose a penalty on the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57309/12]

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: As the mover of the amendment, can I ask the Government to allow for extra time so we can hear the Minister's reply?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: He is the shining light as he called on the Minister to bring forward an easy payment system. He did not call on the Minister to consider the section deducting from farm payments or social welfare or the section dealing with the Revenue Commissioners' responsibilities. The Minister feels the Deputy in question is the shining light in here nonetheless.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: According to the Minister, we have not provided a pittance of information or analysis of issues that can be taken up. The Minister and the Government promised this legislation would be fair. The Bill has been discussed by the public for a long period but the Minister's arguments about resolutions are nonsense. The Minister knows the resolutions going through on the day of the budget are a...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: How ridiculous was An Taoiseach to stand in this House and parade in to introduce the vampire tax that will suck the lifeblood from home ownership? They are his words. It will grind people into the ground. He made those comments in 1994, when there was no issue of 170,000 people in mortgage distress. There were not hundreds of thousands of people in negative equity or 87,000 people...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, line 12, to delete “sale;” and substitute the following: “sale, net of the following:(a) any outstanding liabilities on the mortgage of the relevant residential property, (b) the total value of stamp duty paid following the purchase of the relevant residential property where it was bought on or after 2000, (c) the value accruing to the...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Bannon did not read the legislation. The Minister will be aware that the Deputy has not read the legislation.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Is that the better speech?

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: On a liability of €200,000, that is what the Minister fails to understand.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is on the average asset, which is the liability.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: PRSI is work.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: They are liabilities for some.