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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Why did it take three months? The Garda had become aware of this on 6 February. Why did it take until 16 May to issue an instruction that all summonses would be withdrawn? Why did the Garda leave it that long? The reason I ask these questions is that I want to try to understand the disjointed nature of An Garda Síochána. There is management which has responsibility for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Garda carried out a review to find out, I presume, how many people were being wrongly prosecuted. It would then have had to tell them that they should not have been prosecuted and to make right the errors. However, it carried out a review starting on 1 January 2014. What was the sense in that, given that the fixed charge notices had been introduced many years before in 2006? The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: What does Mr. Twomey mean that the review involved a different issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has recorded that she received a letter from the Department on 14 March 2017 which indicated that the total number of individual cases involved was 1,781 in which persons had been convicted in situations where they had been incorrectly summonsed to court, either without having been issued with a fixed charge notice or having been issued with one and paid the fine. She said the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: To finish, I direct a question to the Garda Commissioner. Unfortunately, I do not have an opportunity to go into the issue of the falsification of data. I presume it is a criminal offence for any garda to falsify the data of An Garda Síochána. Perhaps the Commissioner might confirm that it is. She has given the committee a very clear impression, or I take it from her comments,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Senator Conway. Deputies are being called to the Dáil for an imminent vote. As I have been saying for a number of years, the amount of controlled drugs that An Garda Síochána is holding is bizarre. I know the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Fitzgerald, has asked the Commissioner for a report on this. The most recent figures I have are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Protection (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance the way a consumer complaint against An Post for a breach of the consumer protection code with regard to financial products is treated by the Financial Services Ombudsman and Central Bank; if An Post is regulated in the same way as other financial service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgages (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customers of a bank (details supplied) who have been identified by the IBRC liquidators as having possibly been affected by the tracker mortgage scandal. [15807/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgages (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customers of banks (details supplied) who have received redress as a result of the Central Bank's tracker mortgage investigation; the total cost of redress to date; the anticipated final redress costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15808/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgages (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any legal actions in train against the IBRC liquidators from customers of a bank (details supplied) who are of the view that they were wronged in having a tracker rate denied to them and consider that the redress and compensation being offered to them is not enough; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15809/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which Article 5 of the European directive on unfair terms in consumer contracts, Directive No. 93/13, is factored into the Central Bank's investigation into tracker mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15831/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad chuige nach bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta fós chun na fadhbanna atá ag scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall a shárú (sonraí curtha ar fáil); an ndéanfaidh an Roinn teagmháil dhíreach leis an mbord bainistíochta d'fhonn teacht ar réiteach atá inghlactha go coiteann; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (30 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the high level forum on the community employment sector has established a position in respect of an agreed pension entitlement for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors as per a 2008 Labour Court recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15947/17]

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: -----the accurate and the real information, and we have paid the price for it.

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will conclude on this, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Now we are left to implement what we agreed in Government Buildings, that is, to establish a commission of investigation and convene the leaders of the political parties and the Independent groups in Government Buildings so we can agree the terms of reference. To introduce new red herrings to the debate-----

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: -----is not acceptable. We have already agreed across the political divide that this needs to happen, and no amount of backsliding on the matter will change that.

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I commend the work of the Committee of Public Accounts and in particular that of my colleagues, Deputies Cullinane and McDonald, as well as the work of the former Finance Minister in the North, Maírtín Ó Muilleoir, who worked tirelessly to bring this scandal to light. I also recognise the role the late Martin McGuinness play in regard to the committee. Almost three years...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is over six months since party leaders convened in Government Buildings to discuss a commission of investigation into NAMA and the sale of Project Eagle. They reconvened at the start of October and we have had many attempts, if I may say so, to frustrate the setting up of that commission of investigation. Fianna Fáil said that all criminal investigations would have to conclude...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Jonathan O'Brien made a very valid suggestion to the effect that we should adjourn at this point. There are ten minutes left for the Order of Business. If we adjourn now to let the Business Committee decide and if the latter comes up with a solution, then that can be included in a new Order of Business and Members can decide if they want to support it.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Pearse Doherty: They cannot be facts and there then be a questioning of their accuracy.