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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 286. To ask the Minister for Health when the health (transport support) Bill will be published; the progress made towards replacing the mobility allowance and the motorised transport schemes with new schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17292/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Availability (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the service schedule for a respite care facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; the days of the week and number of hours per day respite care will be provided at the unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17702/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 453. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an assessment of a property will be carried out for a person (details supplied) to allow access of heating upgrade works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legal Costs (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date and the anticipated final cost of the appeal in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the amount in the escrow account set up on foot of the EU Commission state aid ruling in a case (details supplied) has varied since its establishment; if there is a net average monthly cost or gain accruing to the fund including income and expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17047/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Dr. Hunt and his team. I wish Dr. Hunt good luck in his stewardship of AIB. All members of the committee want success for AIB as the State is a majority shareholder. We want the bank to be successful but in a way that is fair to its customers and treats its customers with the respect that was often lacking the past. I argue that it still is lacking in many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Dr. Hunt made the point that it is affecting the talent and so forth. Obviously AIB could move others up from €200,000 to €300,000 and €300,000 to €400,000 if it wishes, but 11 people are receiving between €400,000 and €500,000. That includes Dr. Hunt. I presume it is those 11, or a portion of them, who are being impacted by the cap. Perhaps not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is something of a stretch to suggest that the people AIB employs to service its customers when they go to the branches are affected by the €500,000 cap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I am dealing with the cap because Dr. Hunt has an issue with the cap. Is it just the 11 who are affected as a result of the cap? If we removed the cap in the morning, which I would strongly argue against and which the ECB also argues against, the 11 best paid in the bank would be the beneficiaries. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is the re-introduction of bonus payments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Let us strip the long-term incentive share options from the bonus, although it is the same thing. They are financial. I was on the banking inquiry and we all know what bankers did. They drove their staff to sell products and loans on the basis that their remuneration was tied to the amount of products sold. It was far from customer-centric. The staff should be financially rewarded...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Irish people are the biggest shareholder. I have not heard many of the Irish people say they want to bring in deferred annual share plans for the top executives of AIB. The minority shareholders might have that view but I believe the Irish people, who have 75% of the bank, have a different view. The proposal AIB announced in its plan last year was extremely presumptuous. What it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Last year, AIB made a profit of €1.25 billion. What was the total paid in Irish corporation tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In corporation tax?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What was the British figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The law was changed in 2015 to allow the bank to use 100% of its deferred tax assets. If those assets were used up, what would have been the tax liability of the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is the period less than 20 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: AIB operates is Britain. There is a bank levy in Britain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is calculated differently but there is a bank levy in Britain. In Britain, there is a higher rate of corporation tax applied to financial institutions than to businesses because the authorities recognised the damage the financial institutions did to the wider economy. They are treated differently and more harshly in terms of corporation tax. The deferred tax assets cannot be carried...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There is a levy there but banks have a higher rate of corporation tax than any other businesses. The authorities do not allow deferred tax assets to be carried forward. Almost uniquely, Ireland is one of the countries in the world that allows deferred tax assets to be carried forward forever at a rate of 100%. I acknowledge Ms Helen Dooley did not write the law, which was passed with the...