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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if a VRT exemption will be introduced for mountain rescue vehicles and other vehicles used solely in such rescue activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27452/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Reviews (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review section 135(3A) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, as inserted by section 23 of the Finance Act 2017; if there is evidence that it has reduced tax avoidance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27498/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the annual exemption limits for persons aged 65 years of age and over by €1,000 for a single persons and €2,000 for a couple; if further increases would be a straight line calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27499/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 298. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement consultant psychiatrist has been appointed to fill a vacancy (details supplied) owing to a retirement in the CAMHS service in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27381/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 308. To ask the Minister for Health when the report on lymphoedema and lipoedema will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27413/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a decision in respect of a medical card application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27555/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for psychology services in County Donegal children and youth services, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27665/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the family of a service user (details supplied) of a facility which provides accommodation for adults with intellectual disabilities in County Donegal has been advised that, due to upcoming service disruptions at the unit, they will likely be necessitated to source alternative accommodation arrangements during certain periods; the alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (26 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 610. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial supports available to help conserve and protect a historic structure (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27667/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I raise the issue of services for children with autism in particular and the matter of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit places in schools and the supports therein. There are long waiting lists and people are obliged to travel long distances to access units. In some cases, there are simply no available places for children while other schools are hesitant about opening ASD units at all...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, was sentenced to six years for conspiracy to defraud and false accounting. It might have taken nearly ten years but the Irish people, who suffered immeasurably as a result of the actions of reckless bankers, finally have some sense of justice delivered. The damage done to the State by Anglo Irish Bank in particular was...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is not the first time I have raised this. I have raised it with the current Taoiseach and his predecessor. We have been arguing the case that we need to bring in a suite of measures to tackle white-collar crime, particularly in the financial institutions, for many years. The previous Governor of the Central Bank wrote to the former Minister for Finance asking him to legislate to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. The first question I have relates to the 500 EBS customers. It is a number of years after the bank's formal investigation started. We appreciate AIB was probably one of the first out of the tracks to get to grips with this, although getting fully to grips with it took quite a long time. Why are we now just learning about the 500 EBS customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Byrne now accept that they have a legal entitlement to a tracker and always had it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This probably goes to my next question. We heard from bankers that came before this committee, though I am not sure if it was Mr. Byrne or another CEO, who said that as part of their apology to their customers for the wrongs visited upon them by the bank, they approached this in an overly legalistic manner as opposed to a customer-focused approach. When that apology was being made, they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure if Mr. Byrne heard "Morning Ireland" today. We heard another clip from the Anglo Irish Bank tapes. As we know, David Drumm wakes up this morning in a prison cell, starting a five and a half year sentence. We heard the behind the scenes voices of the bankers and the attitude they had at that time. Much has been said about the culture. I appreciate that the management team in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank is arguing that reckless trading should be a crime. It is not a crime here but it is a crime across the water. The Central Bank has been arguing for this for a number of years but the Government has refused to make it a crime. In a submission to the Law Reform Commission, the Central Bank argues that senior bankers should be held accountable for actions under their remit,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Byrne think it would help the culture in the bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is about jailing bankers if they did wrong and taking away the defence that wrongdoing was the fault of one of the junior staff. It will mean that Mr. Byrne, or the equivalent in another bank, will have stated he was responsible for a certain area and can be held accountable by prosecution. It is more than culture - it is about accountability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Our sole objective is to make sure bankers do not do what they have done with tracker mortgages, overcharging business customers or evicting people without sufficient notice and so on. If more people thought they would face the same circumstances in which David Drumm finds himself this morning, there would be less likelihood of some of these scandals repeating themselves.