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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (17 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 403. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Kuvan sapropterin will be approved for reimbursement for those diagnosed with the genetic condition phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44017/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (17 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 480. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress which has been made to extend the number of jurisdictions with which a reciprocal agreement is in place for the purpose of driving licence exchange; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties which are being faced by emigrants returning home from countries with which no such mutual agreement exists but where they...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (17 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 501. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the operational status in relation to a child and adolescent residential facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the unit remains closed; when it is expected to reopen to service users; if the centre will continue to operate as a residential facility going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (17 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 545. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the illness benefit of a person (details supplied) was suspended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who was previously employed in County Donegal was not paid jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43620/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: This is the second time that I have seen Mr. Kissane appear before this committee and I thank him for his ongoing fight for justice for tracker mortgage victims. Up to 20,000 people have now been affected by this financial fraud by a number of institutions. I also welcome Ms Grogan, Ms Melbourne, Ms Byrne and Mr. Ryan to the committee. Having spoken to many tracker mortgage victims, I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. That is the role of the Central Bank and we have our own views on it. I certainly have my views on the Central Bank's role in this scandal and it coming late, and also not acting with the urgency that many people demand. Some of our witnesses today are victims of banks in which the State has a significant shareholding. It is a majority shareholding in AIB and Permanent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that and think it is very welcome. I am sure all members of this committee would be very familiar with the personal impact. I know people very close to me who are victims of the tracker mortgage scandal. We know the stories, the pain and the hurt that has caused families. It is not just financial pain but other pain too. The question that I am struggling with here is that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will ask Mr. Kissane about the role of the Financial Services Ombudsman, FSO. We have had different key people within that organisation over a period and addressing the type of scandal that Mr. Thomas Ryan mentioned with regard to his own case. Does Mr. Kissane think the Financial Services Ombudsman should deal with certain complaints at this point? There is a stock response from the FSO...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Kissane has expressed mistrust, to put it mildly, in the internal appeals process, particularly in Permanent TSB in the past. Does he see any evidence that the banks have changed their position? Will he elaborate to the committee, because he deals with many different victims of the tracker mortgage scandal, about which banks are getting the processes right, putting people back on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: What was that process like for those of the witnesses who have gone through it after being denied a tracker mortgage, going through the internal appeals process and then being denied?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Could I ask Mr. Ryan a question before we go on to hear the others? I extend my best wishes to his wife Claire and his children as well. It is heartbreaking listening to those personal stories. I commend Mr. Ryan on doing it. He won his case in the High Court in 2011 and it was referred back to the Financial Services Ombudsman, FSO, who originally rejected the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I presume the Financial Services Ombudsman ruled in Mr. Ryan's favour at that point in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Did Permanent TSB appeal the decision of the High Court?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It accepted the decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. Given that the FSO did not support Mr. Ryan's claim originally because it did not have the tape, he would have had to take on a huge financial risk in terms of taking a case to the High Court, which is not an easy thing for an individual to do. How did he weigh that up? A number of individuals decided not to accept the situation and to fight it through the courts. As a result of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that. He is someone who is convinced the bank has taken his money and is holding it, in terms of not being given a tracker rate, but then he put more of his own personal money on the line in terms of taking a High Court challenge, which he could have lost. What-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: What is Mr. Ryan's view on the fact that nobody is going to be held accountable, according to the banks?