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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: When Mr. Crowley says that PTSB is out of exemptions, is this because it has used them all up or has it decided to withdraw from using the exemptions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. On the question the Chairperson asked - Mr. Crowley responded to it - about the platform that the Irish Banking and Payments Federation is looking at, which has already been struck down because of competition laws, I do not understand why PTSB and other banks are designing this new platform between the banks here when there is a European platform that the banks could opt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Like what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: On that point - this is new to me - Mr. Farrell referred to "person-to-person payments", "person-to-merchant payments" and "split bills". SEPA instant, the European system which all banks can opt into, allows for person-to-person payments. Does the European SEPA instant system allow for person-to-merchant payments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: PTSB's one does not even exist. It is just a theory, at the minute, that was struck down by the competition authority. Can Mr. Farrell explain the differences between what PTSB and other banks are planning and the European system. Do not tell me that it can do person-to-person payments, because that already exists in Europe, which all banks in Europe can opt into. It allows money to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is as opposed to opting into the European system and not developing their own system. PTSB and the other banks do not have to develop their own system, they can operate under the European system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I still have not been told what the differences are. What is the additional service that PTSB and other banks plan to provide that is not available through SEPA instant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: SEPA instant does provide for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: As we are going around the houses on that, perhaps we will come back to it at a later stage. My final question refers to the issue Deputy Farrell raised about mica. Can Mr. Crowley elaborate on his comments? Being helpful to customers can mean ten different things. It can mean low interest rates. It can mean forbearance in terms of mortgages. The core issue here is what was expected by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The classification of those loans would be important. The reason I make that point is the State is about to ensure, through a significant amount of spending, that those assets are restored to their original value. That is of considerable benefit to PTSB and other banks. Unfortunately, what I am hearing from Mr. Crowley is that the support the bank will provide, if we look at the pyrite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Banking Matters: Permanent TSB (23 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is it something to which Mr. Crowley is open, as CEO of PTSB?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is planned to reintroduce the mobile driver theory test vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33471/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of airlines his Department has engaged with and or written to in respect of the interim provision of the Donegal to Dublin air service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of airlines that have expressed an interest in the interim provision of the Donegal to Dublin air service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33473/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date by which expressions of interest and or submissions are to be made to his Department by airlines in respect of the interim provision of the Donegal to Dublin air service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33474/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date by which an airline is to be appointed for the interim provision of the Donegal to Dublin air service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33475/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (22 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional information relating to a jobseeker’s review by a person (details supplied) was received; when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33470/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste never fails to surprise me. The language he is coming out with today is that it is not as bad as it was 14 years ago. Does he know where ordinary people are at in his constituency and in Dublin Bay South? Does he know what people are being asked to pay to buy their own home? There is a serious problem and the problem is not, as he is suggesting, bigger mortgages. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire fáilte a chur roimh an mbeart a shocraigh foireann idirbheartaíochta Shinn Féin maidir le hAcht na Gaeilge agus an amlíne a leagadh síos chun é seo a chur i gcrích. Tá cainteoirí Gaeilge ag fanacht le cúig bliana déag ar a gcearta bunúsacha agus ar aitheantas agus beidh sé acu i mbliana....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to fast-track procurement for and delivery of transport infrastructure projects in the north-west to boost regional development, employment and connectivity in response to Brexit and the impact of Covid-19 in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29515/21]