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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Were state aid rules the reason for restricting it to certain airports originally?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This is not intended as a reflection on any individual or group of individuals but an item was introduced in a Finance Bill two years ago which seems to have run foul of the state aid rules and has had to be altered. Given the type of investment involved, the potential jobs and so forth, how difficult is it, when one sits down to deal with a change in the taxation code, to see that it runs...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I understand the state aid rules. My question, to put it bluntly, is this one. Why did the Minister's Department not understand in 2013 that this measure was going to run foul of the rules?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Was there any consultation? Is there a chance to have a consultation to get a feel for it if it is not that clear?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 42:In page 40, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“27. The Minister shall, within nine months from the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available to restrict banks from carrying forward losses against taxable profits of the banks, which could result in many institutions paying no tax for the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I will press the amendment.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 109. To ask the Taoiseach the costs to date of the Commission of Investigation into Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and the overall anticipated budget and cost to complete its work and to report. [40040/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the current qualifying criteria for access to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme for persons with disabilities; if he has given consideration to provide for additionality to the scheme to allow for applicants with other conditions to access it; his views on the huge benefit that access to the scheme would provide to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Residency (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedures in place to ensure that those who are not tax resident here do not breach the conditions of non-residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40072/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of items in the Finance Bill 2015 or pending from previous years still awaiting European Union approval, such as under state aid regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40279/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish collective asset management vehicles established to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40324/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Measures (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected fiscal space permissible in each of the next five years and cumulatively over this time; and the main factors that might cause these parameters to change. [40436/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance the income from dividends and other sources from the State’s holding in Allied Irish Banks and in other banks expected in 2016; and how the sale of shares in these banks might affect this income in 2016 and in further years. [40437/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance how child care is treated for the purposes of value added tax, including the purchase of equipment required for special needs purposes by a private family and by a child care centre. [40470/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance for details of his correspondence with a company (details supplied) regarding the emissions scandal, further to a previous inquiry from this Deputy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40499/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Authority Expenditure (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reduction in rates payable by local authorities and the State as a result of the revision of the global valuation on utilities, in tabular form; if it is appropriate that this measure was taken, considering small and medium-sized businesses cannot avail of these global revisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the activities of a Lithuanian-registered super trawler (details supplied) is being monitored by authorities; the actions being taken to ensure that the vessel is fully compliant with all existing control regulations while it remains in Irish fishing waters; his plans to carry out a physical inspection of the vessel's catch; and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 349. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current Tusla, Child and Family Agency, operations in County Donegal; the locations of its local area offices; the range of services and supports it offers in each office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40252/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 364. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 14 October 2015, in which the annual cost of providing home care to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was disclosed, for a breakdown of the costs, including the number of hours of care and the individual expenses; the costs involved if a comparative level of care were provided by staff employed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the processing of the new application submitted by a manufacturer (details supplied) for the pricing and reimbursement of Kuvan, or sapropterin, a drug used to treat persons with phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40427/15]