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Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that. As I said, the FSPO will operate within the rules that we set. It would be worth having that conversation with the Attorney General as well. The original Bill stems from the Zalewski case in the WRC. Any quasi-judicial organ of the State should have fair procedures, but fair procedures do not mean that someone should have to sign the complaint. Fair procedures can be...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This relates to SMEs. At present, a dual track or dual process is under way where people can appeal a credit decision by a participating institution to a credit reviewer, while at the same time submitting a complaint regarding the conduct to the FSPO. The section seems to clarify that the complainant may not make a complaint to the FSPO and it may not investigate the complaint in...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am still not clear, and that may fall on me, on what the Minister of State said about updating and clarifying. People will still have the ability to make a complaint to the FSPO regarding the conduct. What will they not have the ability to make a complaint to the FSPO about as a result of the legislation? This legislation will ensure there is no overlap, which means it will remove the...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I heard what the Minister read from his note, but his note did not say that he could not do it. It stated that he had to be conscious of quasi-judicial procedures and so on. I have not seen legal opinion on this, and I do not have legal opinion on it, but I am certain there are ways in which we can address the matter if we put our heads together. Even if, as I said, we may not be able to...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am very disappointed with the response from the Minister of State and Department. This is a real issue. I have an example of this. Coercive control exists. These people have a right to do what everybody else can, which is to make a complaint to the financial services ombudsman about the conduct of financial institutions. The Minister of State is telling me he will not do anything about...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for the response. As I said, I have no issue with the parts in this section. However, the clarification and answer the Minister of State gave me was that it always was this way and, therefore, it shall ever be. Without delaying this process, will the Department officials send me a note on why it should always be this way? I am not advocating that it should...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(2) Section 44 of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (6): “(6A) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the Ombudsman may, where he or she considers it appropriate to do so to protect the interests of a complainant, accept a...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State. I do not want to fall out with him but, for the record, there were attempts to move this on Committee Stage. He is absolutely right that when I raised this with the then Minister, Michael McGrath, he said he would investigate it, but this legislation was going to go ahead. We stalled it, therefore, because this is the best vehicle to deal with it. That does...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am not going to move amendment No. 2 because we have just passed amendment No. 1, which does exactly what we are looking for. Amendment No. 4 is also in my name, and while I am not going to move it either, I ask the Minister of State to ensure the legislation does what that amendment proposes. It calls on the Minister to bring forward a report on the extension of the jurisdiction of...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State. Really, what I am looking for here is an early warning system. I am familiar with the 12-month review and so on but I am thinking of people for whom, while they may have made a complaint that has not been heard, it may be a case of a vulture fund absolutely robbing them. It may be the case the vulture fund has taken their home wrongly from them. It may be...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This section, which deals with the original legislation, addresses the funding of the FSPO. As we know, it is funded through two sources, namely, a levy and Exchequer funding. The former is an industry levy imposed on financial service providers annually in respect of FSPO activities for the investigation of complaints and the second source is funding provided by the Exchequer through the...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as an leasú seo a chur i láthair na Dála inniu. Is leasú tábhachtach é seo atá tugtha isteach ag an Aire Stáit. Tá an leasú mar a gcéanna leis an leasú atá agam féin ar son Shinn Féin agus leis an leasú atá ag an Teachta Nash ar son Pháirtí an Lucht...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine.

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I merely made the point that I appreciate the amendment the Minister of State has brought before the House and I referred to the amendment I have tabled on behalf of Sinn Féin. Without speaking for Deputy Nash, who will speak for himself, his is a similar amendment. All three amendments are trying to achieve the same thing. There was a serious problem with the original legislation...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Mar dhuine ón Ghaeltacht agus mar dhuine a chónaíonn sa Ghaeltacht, is mian liom Seachtain na Gaeilge a úsáid mar dheis chun cuid de na hábhair atá ag cur imní ar mo phobal maidir le tithíocht a chur os comhair na Dála agus a léiriú. Ar feadh na mblianta, diúltaíodh cead pleanála do go leor daoine is muintir na...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Today AIB announced a staggering profit of €2.8 billion. That comes a week after Bank of Ireland boasted €1.9 billion in profits. This is not the result of more productivity or innovation. It is the result of banks squeezing homeowners and short-changing savers. Financial institutions on the Government’s watch have lumped workers and families with extortionate...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: So reduce for builders and screw the homeowners? Is that what it is?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No, I am asking about mortgages. The Taoiseach is talking about builders.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of flat-rate expenses; the estimated maximum potential cost if all workers claimed flat-rate expenses; if he will provide a breakdown of the estimated percentage of workers in each category claiming flat-rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10071/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (5 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any changes to the application of flat-rate expenses in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10072/25]