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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: No. That is okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is what I expected or interpreted from the letter. Dr. Cassidy points out, as I in fact pointed out to him, that there was, at the lower end, €5.4 billion of core, non-Covid-related expenditure in last year's budget and that could be in excess of €8 billion. He argues in his letter that that needs to be funded by sustainable financing through tax increases, yet we have a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: What is the Central Bank's view on the idea that we could grow ourselves out of the situation we are in? We are talking about some permanent increases. Most of them - not the majority of them but the larger proportion of them - related to health and staff within our healthcare system, which many would argue we needed and should have made a long time ago. However, we also have the one-off...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, and obviously there is a huge hunger for that type of capital expenditure in the State. There is no doubt about it. Therefore, my question to Dr. Cassidy is this: what level, in his view, of public capital expenditure could the State absorb? We have been here before, where there were capacity issues and so on, but we are in a new year and new dynamics, with high levels of unemployment...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: But-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Chairman. I welcome Ms McDonagh to the committee. I will begin by talking about the huge amount of correspondence my colleagues and I have received from individuals who cannot draw down their mortgages as a result of having what are deemed "underlying conditions" and are, therefore, considered by insurance providers as being at higher risk of death as a result of Covid-19. Has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I have six minutes and I am sorry to interrupt Ms McDonagh but I need to get to the bottom of this issue. There are people, for example, who have diabetes and can no longer get mortgage protection cover from a range of insurance providers. New Ireland Assurance is a subsidiary of Bank of Ireland - indeed Ms McDonagh is the group CEO of that organisation. New Ireland Assurance has changed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Does Ms McDonagh acknowledge that the insurance company that she operates has changed its policy, does take this into account and does not grant mortgage protection insurance if a person has had a Covid symptom over the past three months? It is in black and white on the website. Underlying conditions are also being factored in. Those with conditions that were never factored in in the past,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on from this issue, but I will draw Ms McDonagh's attention to her own group's website, which states that if an applicant has had a Covid symptom in the last three months, his or her application will not be processed for at least another month and it will be sent to the underwriters, who will consider the fact that he or she has had a symptom - not a positive test result, just a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to raise what I regard as an appalling decision, on which I have communicated with Ms McDonagh and in fairness, she has responded to that communication. It concerns the appalling decision to close down one third of the branch network right across the State. I want to put on the record again that the Bank of Ireland exists today because of the taxpayers of this State, who bailed...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: In 2014, almost 14,000 people were brought before the courts for not paying their TV licence fees. In the previous year, 411 of those people were sent to prison for not paying their TV licence fees. A constituent of mine, a single mother, had the Garda call to her door and she was brought to Mountjoy Prison during this period for not having a TV licence. In the same year, the Davy 16 got...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Ar an 6 Márta thug Comhairle na mBreithiúna tacaíocht do na treoirlínte úra atá le leibhéil na ndámhachtainí i gcásanna díobhálacha pearsanta a ísliú. Beidh éifeacht aige seo ar chomhlachtaí árachais agus beidh ísliú i ndán maidir le costais éilimh. Tá sé tábhachtach go...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Tánaiste obviously does not know how insurance works because he just gave the line of the insurance industry when he said that there will be a lag period and that reductions will happen but will take a while to work through. I quoted for the Tánaiste what the representatives of the insurance industry had told us. Let me quote those words again. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (10 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Data (10 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 276. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of retail bank branch closures per year since 2010, disaggregated by bank, year and county location. [12675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 310. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors of the G20 on 26 February 2021 and discussions regarding pillars I and II of the G20 and OECD inclusive framework, in particular the apparent change in position of the United States of America; the response of the Government and the preparations for developments in this area over the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (10 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with a company (details supplied) in view of the €4.13 million fine by the Central Bank on 2 March 2021 in relation to a transaction made by a consortium of employees of the company in 2014; if he has had engagements with the NTMA regarding same; if he will seek the disengagement of State agencies and Departments which have...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 357. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to request that Fáilte Ireland open the outdoor dining scheme to all counties including County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13508/21]