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Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: These are the same developers the Minister told he was introducing the scheme before he told any Deputy in the House about it on budget day.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Deal with the facts, Minister. That is the kind of nonsense we heard-----

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is pushing up houses prices by €18,000 in 12 weeks. The Minister is a disgrace.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister would make McCreevy proud.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Deal with the facts.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2017 and other years of the help-to-buy scheme based on the latest figures; and the reason no cost containment measures were put in place for the scheme. [16432/17]

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Today the Governor of the Central Bank appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach. When asked, he told us in Sinn Féin and those of us who oppose the help-to-buy scheme that, of course, the help-to-buy scheme was pushing up prices and that a cost-benefit analysis would have been a good idea. We now know, despite the...

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Over the past 48 hours since the two reports have been published, households have been asking if we are in some kind of time warp. Are we back in 2007 again when the RTE news and headlines splashed across the newspapers indicate that the price of houses in the capital city is increasing by €6,000 a month? Every analyst and economist worth their salt is attributing part of the blame...

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to acknowledge that this is not a targeted incentive. His scheme is about handing out free money - everybody loves free money.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We need to remember he is taking that money from the elderly person who is lying on a trolley this morning, from the child who cannot get speech and language therapy this morning-----

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ----- or from the creaking infrastructure in rural areas. Does the Minister acknowledge that the spiralling house prices we have seen in the first three months of 10% and 9% across the State-----

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: ----- is partly as a result of his flawed help-to-buy scheme?

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I did not suggest I was quoting him in full. He did suggest that, of course, it was pushing up house prices.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: However, it is pushing up house prices, something the Minister denies.

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister refuses to acknowledge the facts, which he has put on the record of this House. Some 73% of people who have been approved for the help-to-buy scheme did not need this money at all to garner their deposit. That represents millions of euro being provided, as the Minister says, to help people get a deposit. The Minister also claims this is about house prices in the second-hand...

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a commission of investigation should be established into the sale of Project Eagle, in view of the gravity of the Committee of Public Accounts' report on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16621/17]

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I refer to the commission of investigation into Project Eagle. I ask the Minister for Finance to outline his views, given that we have discussed the report of the Committee of Public Accounts on the sale of Project Eagle and, acknowledging the restrictions that were placed on the committee in terms of its reach, that a commission of investigation not be prevented from dealing with fixer fees...

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I take it from his contribution that there will be a commission of investigation into NAMA and the sale of Project Eagle. The Minister will be aware that six months ago Sinn Féin provided terms of reference and will engage with the Taoiseach regarding ensuring the terms of reference are robust enough. At a meeting at which I represented the party, we made the...

Priority Questions: Commissions of Investigation (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister's reply, which I welcome, referred to what is required. Does the Government or the Minister, who will have an input, have a timeframe for the establishment of the commission of investigation? Will it be established before the summer recess or in 2017? Can the Minister give the House an indication of the likely timeframe, subject to agreement with other party leaders and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to pick up on that point about the building industry. I agree with Professor Lane's analysis. I opposed the help-to-buy scheme - unfortunately, we were in a minority - because I believed it would trigger what we have seen in the past three months with house prices increasing every month in Dublin by €6,000 and by €4,000 per month elsewhere across the State. The...