Results 35,221-35,240 of 36,134 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Written Answers — Banks Recapitalisation: Banks Recapitalisation (12 Jan 2011)
Pearse Doherty: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance when he intends to inject funds into Anglo Irish Bank or any of the other banks; the way in which this will affect the reserve money to fund the State in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1405/11]
- Written Answers — Financial Reserves: Financial Reserves (12 Jan 2011)
Pearse Doherty: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the reserves at the Central Bank; the extent of the National Pensions Reserve Fund at this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1404/11]
- Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (12 Jan 2011)
Pearse Doherty: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons awaiting a decision on Garda clearance; if all of these applications are from the previous year; the average processing time of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1507/11]
- Written Answers — Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (16 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the Budget 2011 decision to reduce the vocational training opportunities scheme training allowance from â¬31.80 to â¬20.00 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47670/10]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the decision in Budget 2011 which will see changes to the non-adjacent rate of grant support whereby the distance required to qualify will effectively be doubled from 24km to 45 km for all existing and new applicants from September 2011; her views on whether such a proposal would adversely effect...
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (16 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47987/10]
- Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Defence if prior to deployment each member of the Defence Forces has a consultation with a doctor where a prescription for the drug Lariam is issued and added to their medical file. [47283/10]
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: The amendment touches on a very important point, namely, the powers to be conferred on the Minister for Finance, however long the present incumbent will last in that office. Given the difficulties my colleague, Deputy Arthur Morgan raised in regard to potential constitutional problems arising from this legislation overriding or supplanting laws already in existence, it is a minefield. I am...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: The reality is that four weeks ago he was defending the fact that we did not need the IMF, ECB or EU bailout.
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister has turned many corners in his career and has made many U-turns and should not laugh at me when I repeat what he said in this Chamber and to the nation and whole world just four weeks ago. Either the Minister was lying to us then or he was wrong. The reality is that the ECB has-----
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: I did not say that the Minister was lying. I am saying he was either lying or-----
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: I accept it is not appropriate to use the word "lying" in the Chamber. The Minister either deliberately misled us or was ill-informed at the time. What I am saying is what the Minister said in terms of not needing the EU-IMF bailout because we could depend on the international bond markets. The difference between my approach and the approach taken by the Minister four weeks ago is that he...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: We are not in government and cannot invoke the instruments that would burn the senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank. We are arguing that the Minister should at least empower the Houses of the Oireachtas, through this Bill, to take those measures. The Minister is attempting to enshrine in legislation debt for equity swaps and burning subordinate bondholders, gamblers who gambled in banks...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Our structural deficit can be reorganised. We may have differences of opinion in regard to how this can be done but it can be reorganised. We can get the deficit within the margins of 3%. There is only a year in terms of difference between the Sinn Féin approach and that of Government and other parties. I appreciate that I will not get to speak on the amendments I have tabled. However,...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Arthur Morgan agus an Teachta Finian McGrath. Let us be clear, this legislation underpins the bankrupt banking strategy of the Government. It represents the official seal of approval of the bailout plan and it ratifies it in Irish law. I examined section 67, to which the Minister referred earlier and I wondered what the Minister, Deputy...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: That is not a point of order.
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: His party voted to bail out and invest-----
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: The Deputy knows well, although he may not agree with his party's leader or spokesperson on finance when they say they will use taxpayers' money to bail out the gamblers in Anglo Irish Bank.
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: It is appalling that a party claiming to follow the legacy of Connolly will take from the most impoverished and give it to the gamblers, the bondholders, the international multibillionaires.
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)
Pearse Doherty: I touched a nerve with Deputy Broughan. There is no incentive for banks and pension funds to lend sensibly to borrowers if there is an implicit guarantee that they will always be bailed out by the taxpayer, even at the expense of impoverishing a nation. The â¬85 billion deal with the IMF and the EU explicitly bans the State from defaulting on guarantees given to the overseas finance...