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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Absolutely. Let us all work together to try to resolve this. There is also, however, a responsibility on the Central Bank collectively, not individually. What does Ms Rowland say to Elizabeth and Jerry, who were told by the Central Bank that protections would follow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...its decision-making. The FSPO said very clearly this is a key decision that is excluded from the law, and the law prevents the FSPO from dealing with an unregulated entity in the same way it does in terms of the Central Bank. There is a point here, which is that the Central Bank has to say that it did not see this coming and it got it wrong. I ask the representatives to think about that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...where legal title exists. The vultures do not hold legal title, which is with the credit servicing firms and, therefore, they are still unregulated after 2019. Is the Central Bank aware of this? Does it believe that needs to be closed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What does Ms Rowland mean the "legislation is being complied with"? Beneficial ownership does not mean they are regulated. That is not the case. If the vulture funds - let us call them vulture funds - have beneficial ownership it does not mean they are regulated as a result of beneficial ownership-----

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...is not enough, yet €140 million in additional funding, on top of the €69 million for the free TV licence in the household package, and including the €57 million for TG4, and the €40 million that has been provided to RTÉ already, does add up to what the commission recommended in its report in table 5.2 on page 144. If the Minister wants to get her phone and...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...a vulture fund, the FSPO is of no assistance to you. These are loans that were unfairly sold to vulture funds, which do not now have equal access to the Financial Service Pensions Ombudsman, despite all of the commitments we heard at the time. It does not appear to me that this Bill addresses the gap in legislation. I appeal to the Minister that he accommodate us to ensure this issue is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...the disaster of the housing plan. It is a plan that now lies in tatters, with renters being fleeced and rents double-digit increases in counties right across the State. In case the Minister is not aware, since he took office and in the last four years, rents have increased by 30%. What does that mean for the average renter? It means that the average new renter has to fork out an...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...Figures released today show that there was a 26% jump in fraudulent scams in the first half of last year, with victims scammed out of €8.6 million in the first six months. The Government still does not have a multi-annual strategy to deal with financial fraud. It was a key recommendation of the Hamilton report, a Government report produced three years ago. The Government still...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the Department will make contact. That is what we are looking at. We need to look to see that the next storm - God knows when it will come - does not impact on those floods if they can be prevented. I am conscious there are a lot of delays in rolling out these schemes at different stages. Burnfoot is a good example of delays. I think everybody was up at the time Burnfoot...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...Ó Broin flatly contacted his claim. To date, just 54 homes have received a full grant. Since the revised scheme opened last summer, only 236 homeowners have applied. The scheme is not working. It does not provide 100% redress. The amendments proposed by the homeowners in 2022 would have improved the scheme but instead the Taoiseach and his Government colleagues voted them down....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste does not know. Why is the pay being cut?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: .... The fact is we need 1,000 more hospital beds right now. We need 1,500 more beds by the end of next year and at least 2,500 additional beds by 2030, according to the ESRI. We need a strategic workforce plan to train, recruit and retain health workers. To tackle overcrowding, we need a multi-annual plan. Does the Government have one? Of course, it does not. We have heard many...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will say that the Government does not care because a government that did care would actually listen to the ESRI when it says we need 1,000 more beds now. The Department of Health has a plan for those beds. The problem is that the Government, of which the Tánaiste is a part, made a decision not to fund those beds. There is no way you can slice, dice or spin it around. The...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...this is supposed to be temporary situation and other Departments outside of the Minister's own, although the Minister's Department is involved in it as well, have reviewed a grant-based scheme. Does the Minister envisage that that grant-based scheme will be up and running in 2024? How will it impact on this Estimate, which is under the Department of Finance? My understanding is that the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Department of Finance is not fit for purpose. I do not think anybody in the House or in Cabinet, including the Minister, accepts that it is fit for purpose. It is highly discriminatory. It does not serve the needs of those individuals who are disabled and who need access to transport. It is now January and not being able to say this is going to happen in the first, second or even...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is a genuine question. As Minister for Finance, does the Minister have an indication of what the benefit of pillar 2 is likely to be to tax revenues in the State? I ask that question genuinely because we have legislated for it. It is now part of tax law; pillar 1 is not. Pillar 2 is going to happen in 2026. The Revenue Commissioners are preparing for it. Companies are preparing for...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ..., not apartments. Let us not introduce the idea of forward funding, forward purchasing or forward financing. Let us talk about the fact that 2,053 houses were bought by institutional funds in 2022. Does the Minister know what percentage of the overall new-build housing in the State that represents? It is significant. There were 20,000 new builds in 2022. The number of new dwellings...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...in 2022 alone. Only a small number of them fell into the category of stamp duty. I assume the main reason that is the case is that stamp duty only applies to bulk purchases of ten or more units. Does the Minister acknowledge that the scale of this is much bigger than he has presented in terms of funds that are buying but subject to stamp duty? The vast majority of funds that are buying...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...the vulture funds. Obviously a number higher than that is still consistent with our motion. I agree with what other speakers have said. The intention here is actually to ensure that a vulture fund does not buy up another house from under the noses of potential first-time buyers or other buyers. That is what we are talking about and what we have been raising for many years, proposing...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...to go to Australia because they do not see a future here. We make no apologies and we will take no lectures from the Minister of State. He stood there and told us the Government's policy was working. Does he genuinely believe what comes out of his mouth? Maybe that is the truth. It is working, because it is definitely working for the vulture funds. The Government keeps trotting out...