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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: 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]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Vice Chairman. It is to be hoped there will be no more technical difficulties. It is frustrating that we cannot have these meetings in Leinster House given all of the technical difficulties we are having. I welcome the witnesses to the committee and appreciate, not for the first time, their time and input on this Bill and the wider issue of moneylending. I welcome Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. I am proposing a limit, as author of this legislation, three times the average cost of credit. Taking a six-month to two-year old charge of interest on a €1,000 loan, if the legislation is enacted as I propose, it would mean the cost of credit that a moneylender could charge would be a maximum of €186 for that €1,000 loan. That would clearly be down significantly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I appreciate Ms O'Connor's comments that MABS supports the principle of this Bill. I have outlined the changes I would like to see but could the witness describe to the committee the kind of cycle of debt that borrowers and some of the MABS clients fall into as a result of interest charged by moneylenders? Could she expand on that? There is also the issue mentioned by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will come back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, I do. I was concluding with Ms O'Connor. I echo the comments of Deputy Paul Donnelly and commend all the organisations on the work they are doing. It would be valuable for the committee to hear from them again about the overall debt situation and where people are at. We hear from the Central Bank's reports that there are surpluses in savings but there are two types of stories and,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate Mr. Joyce's comments. I know our submission came quite late in the day but I want to tease out the issue of collection charges. This is an opportune time to move on this issue because the pandemic has impacted on the way moneylenders have operated. Door-to-door collection was the nature of moneylending and is one of the reasons many people go to a moneylender, because of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Joyce. I will make a final comment as I know this is the end of the pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill, which has been quite lengthy. I hope we can now get the pre-legislative scrutiny report and move to Committee Stage. The question I will ask has been posed to me by somebody else so I am plagiarising. If we as an Oireachtas committee were to design a system, would we...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (16 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process involved in advance of applying for a limousine licence for new unregistered vehicles not listed on the considered qualifying list on the RSA website; the way it is determined how a new vehicle meets the criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32320/21]