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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, that section of the legislation in response to this issue is a joke. That legislation only asks the Central Bank to give the Minister a report on how much the insurance companies have pocketed in pandemic unemployment payments. That is all it does. It is a report to find out how much they took of the pandemic unemployment payments. It does not deal with the issue. We had an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister want the money back or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Absolutely, but let me say this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, I recognise it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Let me say this. If I was in the Minister's seat, I would not have let the last year and a half pass without meeting a single insurance company or Insurance Ireland about business interruption. I would not have allowed that to happen. I would have asked them directly why their companies are taking some of our pandemic payments here when they are not taking them in the North, in Wales, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If the Minister was taxing them, which is what I was suggesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not what I am arguing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will leave this point and move on to one last question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: No. I will move on but let me make this point. The Minister is being completely misleading because he has no record to defend himself, and that is his problem. I am not talking about a broad tax on insurance companies. I am saying that the portion of profit they have deducted due to the pandemic payments should be recovered by the State and, on that, the Minister should be meeting them,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: What about business interruption?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I said it was on business interruption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has none.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister had discussions with any bank or any officials in his Department with regard to ending the excessive remuneration charge, which would be the 45% USC surcharge on bankers’ bonuses that we discussed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am not talking about the last number of years. Has the Minister recently, in the last six months, had discussions with his officials or had papers from his officials or with banking executives in regard to removing the excess bank remuneration charge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Covid-19 Payments and the Sale of AIB shares: Minister for Finance (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister give a commitment that the excessive remuneration charge will remain for the remainder of this Government?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the additional schools added to the DEIS programme will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1971/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 1434. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is on the routine or urgent waiting list in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jan 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 1549. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital for a pain relief injection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63577/21]