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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will make one further point on the strategic communications unit, SCU, and the Taoiseach's opening statement. I welcome the decision to disband the unit. Has the Taoiseach or his Secretary General obtained clarification from Mediaforce, the agent acting on behalf of the SCU, regarding a conflict in the evidence in the Secretary General's report where it suggested that no advertising...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: To be helpful to the Taoiseach, the point I was making related to the notice to quit for landlords as opposed to evictions from houses that are to be repossessed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The original email sent to the Taoiseach about the SCU on 7 July was sent by senior officials in his Department to his private email. The officials could not have known the Taoiseach's battery was down. The system was still up and running because the officials were using their Oireachtas emails. This is what I do not understand. Why are senior officials - I know Mr. Frazer-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There is one last question. Have we received clarification from Mediaforce about the version of the email sent from that company to the Taoiseach suggesting it did not ask the editors not to use the word "advertising"? I also refer to the email from the editor which is identical apart from the reference to the word "advertising". No clarification was received at the time. Has the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Can I say something on that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is very short. The quality of Bills has been mentioned. We have a Bill before this committee which the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, asked me at the time not to bring on Committee Stage until the summer of last year. I agreed because his Department was under pressure. The Bill was drafted by the Law Reform Commission. There is no issue in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is the Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill. I have another Bill that would facility bankers being jailed if they lie to the Central Bank. It was drafted by the office that provides legal assistance to Oireachtas Members. There is no issue around the quality of those Bills. The Government has taken a one-size-fits-all approach. Important legislation that is coming from the Opposition has...

Services for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I want to focus on one part of the motion, namely, the in loco parentisclause contained in the contracts for home-care packages for children with complex and life-limiting needs. This policy is shameful and uncaring and it mandates the families of sick children to stay in their homes during nursing visits. It has rendered home-care packages ineffective. The benefits have been marred and,...

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: At what point will the Minister be consulted with regard to the sale of Project Redwood? It is later on in Project Glas. Are we expecting that in the next months?

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister.

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I have done that one. I will do it again, if the Acting Chairman wants.

Other Questions: Mortgage Book Sales (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I was baffled. It was a simple question as to whether they would confirm that Project Redwood indeed existed. They said they would not even comment on that, despite the fact that we have the named three entities in the second phase of the sale. Earlier today, the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach asked publicly for them to reflect on the contribution...

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he clarified to all State owned or part owned banks that his view is that they should not sell loan books to vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13653/18]

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is connected to the previous question. I thank the Minister for his response. I recognise what he said in respect of his own contributions before committees. AIB would not even confirm the sale. It is being reported across the globe, in the Wall Street Journal, in papers here and in England. The bank treated the finance committee appallingly, in my view. We have asked them to...

Other Questions: Banking Operations (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: People refer to the Minister's predecessor using the term "vulture lover", which is probably due to a comment he made to the finance committee about the role vultures play in society. He believed there was a role for vultures in the financial system as well. I do not share that view although he is and was entitled to it. There is a real question in respect of where the current Minister...

Other Questions: Mortgage Book Sales (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I have spoken to both banks at length about this issue. I agree with Deputy Michael McGrath's suggestion but I do not believe there is a conflict in the evidence; the evidence is the reality. The reality is that Permanent TSB made a mess of its split mortgages. As a result of the way in which it restructured them, all 6,300 have been deemed non-performing. AIB's 3,800 split mortgages are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if a 25% cap on bank losses that can be carried forward for the purposes of reducing corporation tax liability along the lines of the rules recently introduced in Britain will be supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14034/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: In the past month we have had the spectacle of AIB, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB announcing combined Irish profits of €2.7 billion, not one cent of which is paid in corporation tax by any of them as a result of a change to the law brought in by the Fine Gael Government. Looking across the globe, this is quite a unique situation. If we look at the OECD report, we will find we are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Corporation Tax Regime (27 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is a national scandal. We are talking about €2.7 billion in profits by three banks which have been bailed out by the Irish people, banks that would not exist today if it were not for the fact that the Government at the time put its hands into citizens' pockets and put the money into those banks. This goes to the core of this issue. This is about fairness. The Minister said the...