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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: What is the answer to €1,000 over 12 months? What will his legislation do in terms of the interest?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State got that from his officials.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It will be €1,560.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: However, the Minister of State is legislating for a moneylender to charge €1,560 for €1,000 of credit. That is €560 of interest when a credit union charges €60 interest. In fairness, that is not what is required here. It is €560 of interest for a moneylender when a credit union charges €60. That is the fundamental difference.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Some €560.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State serious? He is going to vote down every word in this Bill bar the Title of it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is going to vote down all the amendments that flowed out of a period of two years of consultation with the stakeholders.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 102 of Consumer Credit Act 1995 2. Section 102 of the Consumer Credit Act 1995 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) A moneylender shall not make or attempt to make an agreement with a borrower who has borrowed or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 3, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 103 of Consumer credit Act 1995 2.The Consumer Credit Act 1995 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 103: “Restriction on Interest Rates and Total Cost of Credit on Credit made available by means of Moneylending Agreements 103.(1) For...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: He said it was €560. That is what moneylenders currently charge - €560. The Minister of State did not even know what the impact of his own legislation, which I presume he is taking through the House, will be or what is at the core of the legislation, which relates to requiring a cap. What his legislation will do is reduce it to €480.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I should not have to tell the Minister of State what his own legislation is and does, or how little it does, when he is using that as a stick to beat this legislation down. This Bill would reduce the cost of credit for borrowers by a far more significant amount. That is the form, however. The Minister of State just voted down a section with which he completely agrees. It is disappointing....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4: In page 3, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Short title, collective citation and commencement 2.(1) This Act may be cited as the Consumer Credit (Amendment) Act 2018. (2) The Consumer Credit Acts 1995 to 2010 and this Act may be cited together as the Consumer Credit Acts 1995 to 2018. (3) This Act comes into operation six months after...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5: In page 3, line 6, after “1995” to insert “; and to provide for related matters”. The Minister of State has made a dog's dinner of this legislation. It is one of the worst examples of parliamentary practice I have seen in the 13 years I have been here. It is legislation that has a commencement and a Title but nothing else. It is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is nine times what a credit union charges at this point in time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The only reason the Minister of State and the Government will not oppose section 2 is that they would send back a blank piece of paper to the House and show up this farce and the fact that they refuse to co-operate. We will have a debate on the Minister of State's legislation. I am glad certain things will move on this. However, is the Minister of State serious about €560, with no...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (3 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting times for NCT test centres in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (3 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a NCT date was cancelled in the case of a person (details supplied); if an emergency test date or a further extension will be given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12305/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (3 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that a NCT date was cancelled in the case of a person (details supplied); if an emergency test date or a further extension will be given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12306/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: United Nations (1 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the next periodic report on Ireland's implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child will be submitted and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10962/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I want to ask about the rights of citizens with disabilities. Documents released to me under freedom of information show that, for years, the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal has called on the Minister for Finance to change the criteria of the disabled drivers and passengers scheme. It warned that it excluded and discriminated against citizens with genuine, permanent and severe...