Results 201-220 of 13,375 for speaker:Pat Rabbitte

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (19 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 6 May 2015, the number of times in each of the past ten years that a penalty was imposed on an employer under section 987 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, as amended, for failure to comply with regulations under Chapter 4 of Part 42 relating to the collection and recovery of income tax under the Pay As You...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Let us hope the issue does not become permanent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Will Mr. Masding say a word about where he sees the bank in the medium to longer term? One argument on the standard variable mortgages and other issues is that there is a lack of competition now in the marketplace. How does Mr. Masding see the bank down the road? I will put a separate question as well. How would he like to see it?

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for his response. It seems that the broad orientation of policy he outlined is probably correct. The tragedy, however, is that if we let this facility close it would be very difficult to re-establish it. The Minister of State made the point in his response that Tusla has indicated that it would hope to support such services in the future but in 2015 this...

Topical Issue Debate: Domestic Violence Refuges (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: I understand that the Minister for Health is engaged in the other House but I want to bring to his attention, as I am sure does the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy, the plight of Cuan Álainn, a women’s and children’s refuge in Tallaght. It was founded in 2012 by the housing association Respond! and has provided a safe harbour for some 64 for women and 84 children...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Island Communities (13 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 211. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Phase II of the restoration works, to be funded by her Department, will be carried out on an island (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18854/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (12 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 424. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the advice provided to his Department from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, concerning funding being made available to keep open the women and children's refuge at Cuan Álainn, Cookstown Way, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an estimated commencement date for the building of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18542/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (6 May 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance the applicable offences under the Revenue Commissioners' Acts in relation to employers and employees in connection with bogus self-employment claims; the arrangements in place for the prevention, detection and prosecution of such offences; the number of prosecutions and convictions in each of the past 15 years; the new initiatives planned or under way in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Let us go back to the question raised by Deputy Fleming about the standard variable rate and the cost of inputs in Ireland being higher than elsewhere. The difference in regard to Northern Ireland is at 70 basis points. Is that the same as the difference between here and the rest of the United Kingdom?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: What about the recent history in the United Kingdom, on the mainland, in any event? Is that not markedly different from what has been experienced here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: What about the regulatory imperative on Ulster Bank? Is that same regulatory imperative on the rest of the lending institutions here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: It is not something that featured in our exchanges with the officials from Allied Irish Bank. They did not advance it as a reason for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: We will have a look at the text when Mr. Brown sends it on. Is Mr. Brown saying that the bank has no intention of reducing the standard variable rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Will Mr. Brown be saying as much to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, when he meets him?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Let us consider the matter of the 22,000 or 10,000 plus 12,000. The 10,000 are now up-to-date, paying and so on. Are the 12,000 settled or is it a question of temporary arrangements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Mr. Bell said 22,000 cases have been resolved. Short of the kind of situation that always happens or that can happen where a person loses his job, these are reasonable solutions from the point of view of the person who is the borrower. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: Do the Ulster Bank representatives have a figure for the write-downs for 2014 on mortgages?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: What about the 2,000 who are not engaging? It appears, on the face of it, that the steps Ulster Bank has taken are positive. How does Ulster Bank propose to proceed? Is Ulster Bank treating it without discernment? Presumably Ulster Bank has done the selecting of the 2,000 in question. Irrespective of location, amount or whatever, is the offer the same?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of the Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Ulster Bank (29 Apr 2015)

Pat Rabbitte: While I appreciate that, do the solutions the bank is advancing mean it will treat the 2,000 customers alike or individually?