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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the fact that Bank of Ireland has met with the representative group of the 200 staff and former staff affected. This issue will not go away. Deputy Michael McGrath and others in this committee have raised this issue and have gone into great detail in terms of the documentation available to us. I refer to verbal commitments, emails received from Bank of Ireland confirming that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: My final point concerns the issue of charges. How can Bank of Ireland justify charging 10 cent for every transaction on a Visa debit card?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is a hidden charge. If I go upstairs to the canteen and buy a cup of tea it will cost me 60 cent, but if I use my chip and pin it will cost 70 cent because Bank of Ireland is taking 10 cent every time I carry out such a transaction. If I have €3,000 in my account I will not be charged at all. The people who are being charged these transaction fees are those who are less cash-rich...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Can Mr. Kelly clarify that, so there is no mistake? A cashier has to type in 60 cent or €1, or whatever the transaction demands. If I tap my card it costs 1 cent. If I put in my card and use my PIN-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: If I tap the card it costs 1 cent and if I put my card in a machine it costs 10 cent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: How can the bank justify charging ten times more for the same transaction? A person is buying the same Mars bar or newspaper; only the payment method has changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: How does Mr. Kelly justify wealthy persons with €3,000 in their account not having to pay charges but such charges being levied on people on social welfare or relying on disability benefit who may not have the ability to have that amount of money in their account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is definitely good value for Bank of Ireland because it made €431 million on the back of fees and charges last year. That is a huge amount of money. It is not just about the differentiation in regard to charges between those who are wealthy enough to have €3,000 in their account and those who are not. If I open an account in Belfast or London, I will not have to pay such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The committee will revisit this issue and I hope the delegates will take on board some of the points that have been made as the bank reviews it. On standard variable rates, it appears that in almost all circumstances the bank's customers would be better off on a fixed rate than a variable rate. Obviously, the danger is that variable rates could go down, however unlikely that may be. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is on the same matter. We had an excellent debate last night to mark World Autism Awareness Day. April is World Autism Month. Excellent contributions to yesterday's debate were made by Deputies on all sides of the House. Our motion was supported by all parties and Independents. The establishment of an-all party committee on the development of an autism empowerment strategy was central...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Socioeconomic Profile of the Seven Gaeltacht Areas in Ireland: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas fá choinne na cuir i láthair ó thaobh na tuarascála de. Bhí deis againn san AV room é seo a fheiceáil ní ba luaithe. Tá obair faoi leith déanta ag an Seanadóir Ó Céidigh agus ag a chomhghleacaithe leis seo a chur chun tosaigh. Mar a dúirt sé, ní polasaí é seo ach tairgeann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Socioeconomic Profile of the Seven Gaeltacht Areas in Ireland: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Tá ceist ar an ábhar seo agam don Roinn. Ó thaobh an aosa óig de, tá sé soiléir ó na staitisticí go bhfuil an pobal atá againn sa Ghaeltacht níos sine. Tá daoine iontach óga ansin, ceart go leor, ach tá daoine san aoisghrúpa ó 18 bliain suas ag imeacht agus ag fágáil. Fágann siad chun dul go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Socioeconomic Profile of the Seven Gaeltacht Areas in Ireland: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh na moil digiteacha. Tá ceann i nGaoth Dobhair. Cuireann sé seirbhís ar fáil do dhaoine a bhfuil post acu i mBaile Átha Cliath agus atá abálta obair sa bhaile. Tá páirc gnó ag Údarás na Gaeltachta sa pharóiste in aice leis, Cloich Chionnaola. Bhain ceann de na gnóthaí ann, Celsius, gradam...

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas le mo chomhghleacaithe, na Teachtaí Funchion agus Ó Caoláin fa choinne an rúin seo chun comhairle a éileamh ar an Rialtas. We have heard many stories from people recounting their experiences of children and adults with autism. We have heard much support for the motion. I also listened to the Minister of State and his comments on what the...

Autism Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What about the bit before that?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When we met at the beginning of November, we thought there was good news and we cautiously welcomed it. At least the old plan to close down the hospitals is gone officially but the problem is we have been told things over and over again by Ministers that simply are not true. Ministers told us on the radio that the answers given in reply to parliamentary questions from Deputy Gallagher and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I am delighted to be sharing this matter with Deputies Gallagher and McConalogue. It is a pity that the Minister for State, Deputy Jim Daly, is not here. He called the people of Donegal strange last week. He stated that he wanted the opportunity to answer this question and, when we give him the opportunity to do so, he is not here. It is a bit strange that he is not here to outline the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if drivers crossing the Border will require green cards for the purposes of insurance after Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9849/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Data (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected impact of a no-deal Brexit on the structural balance from 2019 to 2024, in tabular form. [14978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Data (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected structural balance for 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date in each of the major Brexit scenarios forecasted by his Department. [14981/19]