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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from a patient advocacy group (details supplied) in which a request to meet is formally communicated; if so, if he will facilitate this request; if he will propose a suitable date and time for such a meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider allowing for retrospective payments to be made to persons under the flood damage relief measure in respect of applications submitted by farmers that incurred financial losses and damage to property as a result of a major episode of flooding throughout the Finn Valley region of County Donegal in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Applications (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision is likely to be made in respect of an application (details supplied) for an aquaculture licence in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40666/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund is due to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40138/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance Scheme (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 508. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will consider allowing for retrospective payments to be made to persons under the humanitarian assistance scheme in respect of applications submitted by flood victims resident in the Finn Valley region of County Donegal who had properties damaged during a major episode of flooding in the area in late...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Pay (26 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost liability of public sector pay restoration, as provided for under the gradual unwinding of the FEMPI measures, with respect to local authority staff, for 2017 and 2018 for each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40552/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We had a discussion at the last meeting of the committee about Bank of Ireland's policy of encouraging their customers to fix their interest rates. Let us look at the issue of variable interest rates. What is Bank of Ireland's variable interest rates for a loan to value in excess of 80%? Can the witness also inform the committee of AIB's interest rate for the same product?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The witness is head of retail banking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: And he is not aware of the interest rates of his bank's main competitors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The witness is head of retail for Bank of Ireland and he is asking this committee to believe that he is unaware of AIB's interest rates.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is significantly lower than Bank of Ireland. Bank of Ireland is probably the outlier in the industry in terms of loan to value rates. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Which financial institution would have a higher rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: For anyone out there who is being charged a 4.5% interest rate by Bank of Ireland at a time when the Central Bank's interest rates are at an all-time low, can the witness explain how much it costs Bank of Ireland to actually borrow that money for which the 4.5% is charged?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps the witness would answer the question. What is the cost to the bank of those funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is the witness telling the committee that there is no figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: What is the blended number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: How can Bank of Ireland justify charging almost double what the EU average is for variable interest rates? Is that not simply gouging the customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Even in Ireland, Bank of Ireland's main competitor, AIB, has just announced a quarter per cent interest rate reduction. Its variable rates are below 3% for certain products, so even if we take like on like and compare the pillar banks in Ireland Bank of Ireland is way behind AIB on the price of products. How can the witness justify the fact that Bank of Ireland is gouging its customers by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on to the issue of the number of accounts in arrears. We have seen that there is a significant fall from 2013 to today. It is still not acceptable, in my view, that almost ten years on from the crisis there are still so many in arrears, but we have 4,083 compare with 11,116 in 2013. It says that there are 486 such homes in forbearance and 2,283 in some sort of legal process,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

Pearse Doherty: There is a significant drop in the number of arrears. Some of them are in forbearance; some are in the legal process. The question is: did the bank sell any of those loans on?