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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, if I worked for KBC, had an issue with work practices, was a member of a trade union and asked it to meet management, would the bank refuse me access to my union representative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There can be a union representative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that Mr. Verbraeken talked about the evolution of the bank which extends to current accounts. Does it have any intention of following its parent company which does recognise unions, given the position of KBC? It is welcome that KBC is committed to Ireland. We need banks like it, but we also need a far better culture within it. We need competition within the economy. Does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: With a different culture.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appeals lodged at the Irish Financial Services appeals tribunal; the number that were accepted as appealable; the number of hearings held; the number of Central Bank decisions or findings successfully appealed in each year since the tribunal was established in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30023/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost each year and to date in 2018 of the Irish Financial Services appeals tribunal; the cost to the Central Bank incurred through legal fees related to the tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30024/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the help-to-buy scheme beyond its end date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30047/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore the funding levels paid to schools under the capitation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30739/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to address the discrepancies which exist in the rates of pay and benefits paid to school secretaries and caretakers; the action he is taking to ensure that these workers have pay equality; the efforts being made to end precarious employment in respect of these professions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times in respect of prostatectomy procedures across all the relevant hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30028/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the consultant urologist vacancies across all hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; the length of time for which these posts have been vacant; when these posts will be filled in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30029/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 546. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 8 May 2018, if a detailed breakdown of patient entitlement to post-mastectomy products, including product types and product cost across each of the relevant HSE local area offices will be provided in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the consultant urologist vacancies across all hospitals in the Saolta University Healthcare group; the length of time for which these posts have been vacant; when it is anticipated that these posts will be filled, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30613/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 906. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there has been no progress to introduce an agreed pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors despite repeated calls for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30917/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ferry Services (10 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 964. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the agreement specifically reached between her Department and the community on Tory Island concerning the provision of the island's new ferry service relating to the provision of secondary stand-in ferry services; when this service will commence; the duration of the contract in place for the provision of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: In my questions I want to focus on switchers. Typically, 90% of loan-to-value is available to switchers. Does that apply to first-time and non-first-time buyers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The answer I have before me refers to a figure of 90% of loan-to-value. Can a person who wants to switch get a top-up on the amount of money available in the switching process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will put the question in another way. For a non-first-time buyer, the Central Bank deems it appropriate that the loan-to-value ratio should be 80%. Is that the case? If I went to Bank of Ireland or Allied Irish Banks and obtained a loan of 80% of loan-to-value and then decided to switch, would I be able to avail of a 90% loan in the switching process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am familiar with that. Switching has to take place within the rules and there is no way of circumventing them. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Bank of Ireland (5 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. O'Beirne for the clarification. We hear about the volume of lending. A total of 12% of the Bank of Ireland lending business in the first quarter of the year involved switcher mortgages. We have heard the same from the other banks. This money is circulating, but it is not real new money into the economy. When we are looking at the figures from banks for new lending, some of it...