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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35913/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State can shake his head all he wants. The policies being announced today result in homelessness, in a trolley crisis, in poverty. The Government cannot have it both ways. It cannot slash taxes and then pretend that it somehow wants to address the homeless crisis.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What is disgraceful is the fact that the Government has put nearly €200 million into the pockets of the wealthiest 14% in the State, yet put only an additional €69 million into tackling the homelessness crisis. That is what is disgusting. On the doorstep of this Chamber people are dying because they cannot have a roof over their heads. I will take no lectures from the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What is it going to take for the Government to declare a national emergency in housing?

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: What is it going to take for it to finally start facing this issue head on? It has announced a day when NAMA is going to build 20,000 houses.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I have asked and called year on year to use NAMA's resources to tackle the infrastructure needs of the State and the Government has turned its face against those calls. One would think the Government was elected yesterday or last week. Of course it should be doing that. True to form, the Government is not dealing with the social clause in the NAMA legislation, but is getting NAMA to give...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Who can forget the "every little hurts" advertisements? Far from putting manners on its coalition partners, Labour became more Fine Gael than Fine Gael itself. That was up until the Labour Deputies' own heads were on the block. Lo and behold, their glorious leader, Labour's very own Countess of Grantham, is throwing her weight around like there is no tomorrow. It appears that the Labour...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This is summed up by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform's glee and joy at the suffering of the people of Greece and of Syriza, which was re-elected into government, and the challenges it faces. I ask the Minister of State to send him a message. When his party gets re-elected in the same numbers Syriza gets, he can start to give lectures about the Left.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It is beneath the Taoiseach to start heckling again, but if he wants to do so, just do it. I did not open my mouth when the Government members were waxing lyrical.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We want to deliver a fair recovery, one that invests in Ireland’s future for the long term and for the benefit of all rather than the few. We want to deliver a recovery that ensures that children experience equality of opportunity, be it in their education, their access to supports and services or their career choices as they pass into adulthood. We want to grow an economy that is...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, and that is the €24 million. However, the need for resource teachers and all the other needs in education are not being met. Year after year, child and poverty agencies have highlighted the increased costs for parents to put their children through an education system that is supposed to be universal. The damage this Government has done to the education system is far...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I will wait for the exodus of Fianna Fáil Members. They might be joining the Minister on the plinth. Despite all the promises, rhetoric and spin of the past few weeks, what the Taoiseach and the Ministers presented today is the epitome of the boom-bust politics of the past. The cut to the USC and changes to PRSI will put more than three times more in the pocket of someone earning...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance if and when he will commence the provisions of the remaining sections of the Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseas Regulators Act 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the assessment in a recent Central Bank of Ireland report that Irish rates for lending to businesses have diverged from the Euro area average over the past year, as rates fell in many countries; that business lending is now 1.24% points above the average; his plans to tackle this divergence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35617/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out an impact assessment of the strategic banking corporation on the cost of business lending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35618/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the lower rate. [35797/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the higher rate. [35798/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers exempt from income tax. [35799/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the proposal of a person (details supplied) to set up an investor court to deal with disputes under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35487/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has raised concerns with the European Commission regarding the investor state dispute settlement mechanism proposed under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35488/15]