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Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if correspondence from a person (details supplied) has been reviewed; if so, the reason no reply has issued; when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9045/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the accommodations and-or special dispensations afforded to applicants with disabilities with respect to the rapid response corps and electoral observation mission rosters; if the relevant equality monitoring has been carried out in respect of these rosters; the number of such accommodations and-or special dispensations granted with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Children's Hospital (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount drawn down to date of the €490 million loan secured from the EIB to construct the national children’s hospital; if a further loan is being considered in view of increased costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9125/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons provided with permanent contracts of employment by the HSE in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, under the HSE job evaluation scheme; the number of such cases for which the candidate underwent a formal interview as part of the process; the number of such cases for which no formal interview occurred; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the grades and types of roles which qualify for the HSE job evaluation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8976/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a minimum tenure period which a person must remain in post before they have an entitlement to permanency in instances in which a person is employed by the HSE in an acting post; if so, the details of same; the grades, roles and so on which this rule covers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the amount drawn down to date of the €490 million loan secured from the European Investment Bank, EIB, to construct the national children’s hospital; if a further loan is being considered in view of increased costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9126/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the processing times for cross-Border directive refunds; the measures put in place to reduce waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9538/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of buying sufficient credits to prevent Ireland from breaching its EU climate obligations on the basis of the most likely emission profiles for each year until 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9230/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their publication on this issue and their numerous other pieces of work. Mr. Byrne mentioned the Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017, which I have sponsored. This simple Bill, which was drafted by the Law Reform Commission, only requires a number of tweaks so that it can be updated on foot of relevant legislation that has been passed since it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will put it in the context of our past experience although we are dealing with future law which cannot be applied to the past, lest anyone think I am suggesting anything else. The majority of the public believe that what happened in Anglo Irish Bank was reckless and there was reckless lending. The layperson believes that and I certainly believe that. I also understand that we do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Why make provision under the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act which provides for offences with victims on the other side? Where there is recklessness within banking, there may not be a victim at that point. The victim is down the road. This is about preventing the type of activity we had in the past where bankers were lending billions of euro to individuals who were already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, one could not prosecute them. I have a concern about recklessness being added to our toolbox in the context of theft and fraud. It narrows the scope to have to identify a victim of the activity as opposed to focusing on the conduct of the individual and his or her recklessness, whether there is a victim at that point or not. The intention here should be to ensure there is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Moving on to accountability under the liability of corporate management agents, Mr. O'Malley said a managerial agent shall be liable and be prosecuted on the same basis as if he or she were guilty of corporate offence. If one is guilty of a corporate offence, this generally results in administrative sanctions. Is the commission suggesting criminal sanctions, which is not necessarily the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. O'Malley said an individual, a managerial agent, shall be liable to be prosecuted on the same basis as if he or she was guilty of a corporate offence. Is Mr. O'Malley proposing that individuals could be sent to jail as a result of prosecution, or is it just sanctions that can be applied to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What the Law Reform Commission is proposing is a lot weaker than what the Central Bank is proposing. Would that not be the case? The Central Bank made a submission to the Law Reform Commission. The Central Bank then through the scandal with the tracker mortgages outlined in terms of its senior management how individuals could be brought to account, basically mirroring what is already in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Would that proposal also include the fact that if that person - let us suppose it was the CEO of the corporate entity who had responsibility - relied on the fact that it was somebody down the chain who carried out or missed something he or she should not have done or missed that allowed for the activity which is now being prosecuted criminally at a corporate level? Could the CEO rely on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point. I appreciate that the recommendations that are being put forward by the Law Reform Commission add to our toolkit and strengthen our hand in relation to ensuring that criminal activity in institutions or at an individual level can be prosecuted, which will hopefully act as a deterrent. That being said, I still believe the measures are quite weak. I accept the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement (26 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the delegates for their attendance and the invaluable proposals they presented to us. I would like to hear their views on two issues. There was an interesting discussion on the banks and banking licences. We know that a licence can be revoked, but the reality is that some banks are too big to fail. Therefore, the consequences of revoking a bank's licence in the morning would be...