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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The new personal injury guidelines came into effect in April 2021 and the reforms were introduced to reduce the price for consumers, not to generate the savings and boost the profits of the insurance industry. There is growing frustration that the benefits of these reforms are being captured by the insurance industry and the companies, rather than being passed on to consumers and businesses....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of targeted and temporary mortgage interest relief to absorb a portion of increased interest costs since June 2022 on primary dwelling home mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11517/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Tá a fhios ag an Aire - agus tá le tamall - go bhfuil an ECB ag cur rátaí morgáiste suas le 3%. The European Central Bank, ECB, has increased its key interest rate by 3% and it is expected to go up, on 16 March, another 0.5% with further increases flagged for later in the year. These increases have not worked fully through the Irish system uniformly. However, there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister talks about the interest rate in terms of new mortgages, and I do not dispute his facts, but will he acknowledge, when all outstanding Irish mortgages are taken into account, that they are significantly higher than the European average? In December, they were 2.88% while the European average was 1.89%. Ireland's mortgages are actually much higher than the European average....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This is my last point.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has not brought forward a single solution for these individuals. Does the Government plan to do so?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We have the data on that but let us deal with individuals. A person contacted me about mortgages sold to Pepper that have increased by €520. Another person's mortgage increased by €560. If that is multiplied over a year, it amounts to thousands more euro they have to pay. They were sold a lie. They were told they would be no worse off if their loans were sold to a vulture....

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas le gach Teachta Dála a labhair ar an ábhar seo. Is ábhar fíorthábhachtach é seo mar tá daoine amuigh ansin ag fulaingt le billí atá ag dul in airde. Tá daoine ag fáil billí €1,000, €1,300 agus €1,500. Tá go leor Teachtaí ar an taobh seo den Teach ag cur billí mar seo os...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Notional. It is being applied across half of Europe.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Dáil record will show that the then Minister for Finance opposed them.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Dáil record will show that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, opposed a windfall tax.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — unsustainably high energy bills continue to put workers and families under significant financial pressure; — average gas and electricity bills have more than doubled over the past two years; — recent figures from the Economic and Social Research Institute estimate that the share of households in energy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on increasing excise duty on the price of gas for residential use, home heating oil and solid fuel products in May 2023 in the context of a cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the sale of tracker mortgages to third parties and vulture funds which were overcharged as a result of the tracker mortgage examination; his views on these sales in the context of the principles of the TME; and if he will engage with the Central Bank with respect to same. [11319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of complaints made with regard to the operation and services provided by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; if he will consider introducing an independent assessor to consider complaints about the standard of service and practical handling of a case provided by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net benefit per households, from March to end October 2023, of the reduced VAT rate applied to electricity and gas, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if houses that have outer leaf repairs carried out under the Mica redress scheme will qualify for SEAI home energy efficiency schemes grants, if it is the case they are prohibited from applying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the breakdown on the Bus Éireann route 32 Letterkenny to Dublin on 23 February 2023; if he is satisfied with the measures being taken to prevent future interruptions in this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10917/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 28 February 2023, if the introduction of provisions to require reimbursement from payment service providers to victims of authorised push payment fraud domestically would contravene the revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2), given the response provided to the question did not clarify the issue. [11308/23]