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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Do you not need to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody is coming in and getting a mortgage over the counter these days.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The banks would not allow it in the first instance even if they wanted to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: These fall under the definition, under the consumer mortgages credit agreement regulations of 2016, as foreign currency loans. What AIB and Bank of Ireland offer, even though they operate on both sides of the Border, is a foreign currency loan. It will be deemed a foreign currency if a loan is provided to one person in one jurisdiction whose income comes from another jurisdiction. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I will leave it at that, on that point, and ask that the banks look at their own operations and the penalty that applies. The Good Friday Agreement requires all of us to try to harmonise issues on an all-island basis and that 20% penalty is sometimes excessive. I want to mention an issue I raised two years ago with Mr. Crowley and others, and that is the instant payment app. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The individual banks might want to give feedback on this final point. A recent ESRI paper has questioned or pointed up a serious risk in regard to the requirement we have, as a State, in terms of the capacity of the construction sector to access credit. It did a detailed assessment looking at historic trends, how it has been funded through deposits and so on. It calls into question whether...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Hayes have anything to add from an overall banking perspective? He represents more than just the three banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Issues: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is what I was trying to get at because it is a completely different message that is being sent in all of that. If Dr. Ugur does not have the data for outstanding mortgages, that is fine. We can revisit that. There is one other issue, which relates to the profitability of the banks. Mr. Hayes mentioned the importance of profitability in the banks and increasing the capital. We all...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank all the speakers to spoke in favour of the motion tonight because it is a very important one. As many of them mentioned, we are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. I will not name all the parties. It was disappointing we did not hear from any of the Rural Independent Group Deputies who were not here to contribute to the debate but I am sure they will have plenty talk about on...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The key issue here-----

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is why I am sorry the Rural Independent Group Deputies were not able to contribute to the debate because I am sure-----

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is why I said I am sorry they were not here to contribute to the debate because as I am sure they would have a lot to add to it.

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody for contributing to the debate and supporting the motion. It is disappointing that the Government has tabled an amendment. I have raised these points with the Minister who was shouting over to Deputy Carthy saying, "Ye supported this", and all that. I can read him the transcripts. He is giving the impression now that he set this date of 3 October because he wanted to...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You did not even turn up.

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — workers and families continue to struggle with the cost-of-living crisis; and — the prices of petrol and diesel have risen in the past number of months and are due to rise further, resulting in significantly increased travel costs for workers and families; notes that: — from March to August, average petrol and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any plans are in place to deal with the continuing backlog of cases in Donegal courts that are continuing to cause significant delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41648/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Government's childcare policy is failing. We have had promise after promise and we still see parents paying a small fortune in fees, a perpetual staffing crisis and, every year, parents struggling to find places for their children. These problems are the result of the Government's refusal to invest properly in the sector. Childcare services in many areas right across the State are now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This is under the Minister. It is why the plan is failing. I am appealing to him to change direction and not to do more of the same.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: He should stop the bluster and recognise what is happening out there. The country needs a change of direction and the Minister to recognise that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister did not ask any questions.