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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Both MEPs can come in on this issue. Why does the European Parliament not carry out a country-by-country analysis to show member states and EU citizens the impact of the proposal that the Parliament has before it? Our guests state that they were not aware that we have three taxation rates. Both of them are rapporteurs for two different reports on CCTB and CCCTB. This committee has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate Mr. Alain Lamassoure's opinions on that. I have one final question. I am interested in their views of the perception of Ireland among their peers in the European Parliament and the committees in which they operate. Mr. Tang mentioned, and repeated, Ireland being a tax pirate. Is that view shared by his peers across the political divide in the committees in which he works?...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance when the remaining claimants in relation to a company (details supplied) will be compensated; the way in which the State is protecting customers of the company from personal liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3747/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the dates of all meetings held by his Department with a company (details supplied) in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3761/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Central Bank (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the input his Department or the Central Bank has had in the ECB's work on supervisory response on the treatment of non-performing split mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3790/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive outstanding GLAS payments for 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3743/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme Data (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the loans made available to persons through the agriculture cashflow support loan scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3785/18]

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (24 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (24 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to Bill entitled an Act to extend the application of Part IIIC of the Central Bank Act 1942 to provide powers to the Central Bank to conduct inquiries into the suspected provision of false or misleading information to it and to provide for the administrative sanctions that may be imposed by the Central Bank for the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Banking (24 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of bank accounts operated by his Department; the names of the financial institutions at which the accounts are held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3531/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (24 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of lenders and value of lending in the car finance PCP sector by companies that are operating with section 110 tax status, including a company (details supplied); his plans to act on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3566/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: On that question of the prevailing rate and the surrounding issues, did these 4,000 customers have an option when they were taking out their mortgage to take out a tracker rate initially?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: In the contract documents that they have, if their mortgages are still live, they could have taken out a tracker on day one but most opted for a fixed rate for a period, usually three or four years. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I have seen many contracts and it would be very helpful if AIB could take out the personal details from some contracts and supply them to the committee so that we could be more familiar with them. I have seen letters of offer and contracts from the bank and it is clear that the letter of offer would be a tracker mortgage but there was an option to fix if the individual wanted to. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The letter of offer would have contained several options, one of which was a tracker rate, with an ECB plus margin fixed to it, would that be correct? They would also have an option of fixing, which many of them did and then the contract was drawn up on that basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Would there have been a definition of this tracker margin on the letter of offer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let us examine who was denied a tracker mortgage by AIB. This cohort of individuals was contractually entitled to a tracker mortgage and the bank denied them the tracker mortgage. Then the bank switched 900 people who were on tracker mortgages and it denied them the right to go back on to the tracker mortgage and they had a contractual right to one. There were 939 on a margin and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will repeat my original question because I do not think Mr. Byrne answered it. If they chose to fix for a second time and came off that would they have been entitled to a tracker?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: They would have been entitled to a prevailing rate tracker.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: For whatever number of those 4,000 customers that fixed for the second time is the prevailing rate calculated at the end of the second fixed period?