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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. The committee has discussed, for example, EBS customers. It is clear from the documentation that they were entitled to roll on to a tracker mortgage rate. Have those issues been resolved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Professor Lane's opening statement, which was very good and focused on way more than the tracker mortgage scandal. It is quite frustrating that we are still talking about this issue and we have to because it is not yet resolved. Professor Lane identified many other issues in his report that, hopefully, we will come to. He has identified that the cost of the tracker mortgage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Could Ms Rowland outline the timeframe regarding when they are expected to conclude?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Has the bank received full co-operation from the six financial institutions under investigation by the bank's investigation team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This committee has invited Ulster Bank to appear before it with regard to the so-called technical glitch that left its customers high and dry with missing mortgage payments again. So far, Ulster Bank has refused to come before the committee. The committee will continue to engage. It is not acceptable. We will pursue that with Ulster Bank. In respect of the Central Bank, its role as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: When Ulster Bank closed services to its customers in 2012 or so, it went on for six weeks and the fine was €5 million. I think that speaks volumes. Now we see that money has disappeared completely from people's accounts. I imagine that there will be an investigation and, hopefully, there will be a response at the end of it. Can I put a specific question that was put to me by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: So Mr. Sibley does not believe that there were any IT problems on 30 April in Ulster Bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Not that Mr. Sibley is aware of. The final issue I want to discuss is the economy and the macroeconomic outlook, which I think this committee needs to focus more on. The Governor did not say that the economy is overheating. I ask him to inform the committee of the factors which inform the opinion that it is not overheating. I am glad that he referred in his opening statement to the issue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Knowledge Development Box (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of SMEs that have applied for and been successful, respectively, in their applications under the knowledge development box; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20613/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 171. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment for surgery at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20522/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobs Initiative (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason participants on the jobs initiative programme that are now required to work 39 hours per week up from 34 hours per week as worked previously by some will not be receiving salary increases to reflect these additional hours being applied to their working week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20518/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Caiteachas Ranna (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ós rud é, de réir an Achta um Chrannchur Náisiúnta, 1986 go mbíonn sciar de bhrabús an chrannchuir le caitheamh ar an nGaeilge agus ó díoladh ceadúnas an Chrannchuir Náisiúnta in 2013 an féidir leis an Aire a chur in iúl cé mhéad maoiniú a cuireadh ar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an early parchment cannot be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for employment purposes by the relevant institute of higher education; if his attention has been drawn to the implications such a situation is having on final year students when trying to secure job opportunities from employers that require the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of cases in which the cost of contracted training procured by SOLAS has increased post the framework agreement; the number of cases in which it did not increase beyond the framework agreement in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20401/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of contracted training procured by SOLAS; the numbers in training in these courses in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20402/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there was a great deal of confusion and inconsistency in instructions given to some applicants to tenders for SOLAS training courses regarding the use of subcontractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20403/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of points awarded on the basis of price for tenders for contracted training at SOLAS; if this was always the case; the reason this percentage was chosen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20404/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the scoring matrix for the tenders for contracted training at SOLAS is weighted in a way that means the cheapest tender counts for too little in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20405/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes (9 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of companies that have received a contract for training at SOLAS in each of the past ten years across each education and training board and by education and training board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20406/18]