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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue from tapering out the personal, pay as you earn and earned income credits by 0.7% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €170,000 per year, resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €170,000 and introducing levies of 2% and 4% on income over €170,000. [19333/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue from tapering out the pay as you earn and earned income credits by 5% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €140,000 per year, resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €140,000 and introducing levies of 2%, 4% and 5% on income over €140,000. [19334/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding the CAT group A threshold, the total annual number of persons who availed of the group A threshold in each of the years from 2010 to 2014, in tabular form; the total value claimed through this threshold; and the total number of persons whose claims exceeded this threshold, broken down into regions (details supplied) as per the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a recalculation of the fiscal space available over the next five years based on the figures noted in the information box on the possible economic impact of a British exit from the European Union in the Summer Economic Statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19741/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance how the loan-to-income and loan-to-value rules under the Central Bank's macro-prudential lending rules interact with each other; if there is a formula in place that limits the leeway for exceptions that can be used under one rule at the expense of the other; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19784/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the increasing concerns of students at the prospect of student fees payable by those from the Republic of Ireland, who are undertaking degree programmes in either Northern Ireland or in the United Kingdom, may in future be levied at non-European Union student rates following the Brexit referendum outcome; if he is further...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 379. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the south Ennis flood relief scheme will commence; to provide the technical issues delaying the scheme; the new anticipated date for finishing the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19254/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress made with regard to the development of a new implementation framework for the reconfiguration and development of neuro-rehabilitation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19445/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (5 Jul 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 550. To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently a full time endocrinologist in place at Letterkenny University Hospital for the treatment of adult diabetes patients; the waiting times for persons to receive an appointment with the endocrinologist at the hospital, specifically regarding those waiting for three months, six months, nine months,12 months or greater then 12 months, in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: On cherished licence plate numbers, 177 people paid the extra €1,000 to get a certain number. They have little to be doing. In any case, we will move on to other matters. There has been a lot of talk about Brexit. Deputy McGrath referred to the fiscal space this year. The Minister suggested that, in regard to Brexit, it will not alter anyway. It may alter because of the new...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. With the Minister, we have been dealing with the arrangements to set up the budget oversight committee. The difficulty is that data can sometimes become outdated the following day or sometimes the following week. As the Minister implied, a portion of the summer economic statement was dedicated to the impact of Brexit, and it covered the extreme scenario of a reduction in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: From the point of view of someone who has to travel across the Border on two occasions to get back to my constituency and has a deep conviction regarding the reunification of this country, I would hope that the Minister would talk to the Taoiseach so that along with arguing for the Scottish people's vote to remain within the EU to be respected, he would make the same arguments for people in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I know.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure they will be commenced by that stage in terms of budget dates but we will leave that for another day. I want to pick up on the issue of the rainy day fund. Is it still the Minister's intention to commit the level of funding that has been laid out in the summer economic statement given the likelihood that the net fiscal space in the coming years will reduce? Can the Minister...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Let me just-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry but that was not clear. Could I ask a couple of quick questions?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: What about-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: We have the option not to consider them and finish our consideration next week.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: There are a number of questions, unfortunately, that I would like to have asked regarding NAMA and other areas that we did not get an opportunity to consider, given the Minister's willingness to come in.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: What would be the consequence of meeting next week?