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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (27 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2018 to 2022; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [9522/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Dumping at Sea (27 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 754. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his department received a formal request from Donegal county council to investigate the contents of potentially toxic materials dumped off the coast between 2015 and 2017 and to date in 2018; if there has been formal communication between the local authority and his department in relation to the 2010 OSPAR Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure Programme (27 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 786. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2018 to 2022; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [9515/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government commits to working towards the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent agreements. As the Minister will be well aware, the Good Friday Agreement has come under attack in recent days from the hard Brexiteer wing of the Tory party and other reactionary voices in Britain. In that vein, I welcome the comments of the Tánaiste yesterday...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The vendor has the confidentiality agreement------

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is scaring them by allowing this. That is a cheap shot.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Only the Government can do that through the regulation it enforces.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The debate that is currently taking place in respect of the sale by Permanent TSB of Project Glas, comprising loans relating to 14,000 family homes and 4,000 rental accommodation units, is false. I have been a strong advocate of the regulation of vulture funds. Indeed, the Minister, when he was Minister of State at the Department of Finance, dealt with the 2015 legislation proposed by Sinn...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister said that we have time. At my request, we have invited Permanent TSB representatives to appear before the finance committee on Tuesday next. Deputy Michael McGrath made a similar request. Permanent TSB representatives have told us that they have entered into confidentiality clauses with prospective buyers. The train has left the station. These are vulture funds and the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: My colleague raised a number of issues but I wish to focus on a separate matter. It is an issue the Minister raised in his opening statement when he said he wanted open, accountable and ethical Government underpinned by a transparent and effective public system. Everybody in the committee subscribes to that aspiration. The Minister has direct responsibility for holding up 27 legislative...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is a matter for an effective public system.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: As a member of this committee for many years, I have never blocked a legislative measure from the Government being taken on Committee Stage despite my opposition to the content of legislation. That is what the Government is doing. I am not arguing against the Minister's right or the right of his party members to vote against items of legislation before this committee. However, to prevent it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Murphy, that is correct. However, it is not about an individual piece of legislation. It is relevant to this. The reason I say it is relevant is because the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in his opening statement, talked about political reform, accountability and ethical Government. He has introduced this topic. There is an issue here because the Taoiseach in the Dáil yesterday...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There are a number of pieces of legislation before this committee that have been prevented from proceeding to Committee Stage that we want to bring Committee Stage because of the money message. As a starting point, the Minister could review those items of legislation and give us a detailed response as to why he has decided not to allow those to proceed. We hear so much about "new politics"...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Will the Minister make available departmental officials who make the calls in relation to money messages so committee members, who wish to engage, can get a better understanding of the strict criteria used to determine whether a money message is required or not? It is deeply confusing. Sometimes we try to introduce legislation that we cannot even present on the floor of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps the talks did not go well last night and we might be closer to an election.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: 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) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I only have a few minutes because I have to go to the Dáil. I would like to focus on the comments he made on the issue of mortgage arrears and the potential sale of 14,000 family homes and 4,000 rental accommodation units to a vulture fund by Permanent TSB. When did the bank inform him of its decision in that regard? Did the bank consult him on the decision?...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: 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) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I tabled an amendment in 2015 to regulate these funds and I introduced legislation last year in this regard. I know what the 2015 Act does and does not do. What additional protection will the regulation of these funds give to any of the 14,000 homeowners or the 4,000 renters whose loans will be sold to a vulture fund? We all know that this is not the issue; the issue is selling long-term...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: 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) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister knows the answer to my question but he may not want to say it. What additional protections will be given to homeowners if their loans are sold to vulture funds by just regulating them?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: 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) (22 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There is only one solution to this. Long-term products should never be sold to entities that only have a short-term interest. We also have a responsibility to protect homeowners.