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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (8 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in making a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the area-based payment and the single farm payment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35046/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Health #the position regarding an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34970/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (8 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from Sligo Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35045/15]

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an díospóireacht atá againn anocht faoin gcáin chorparáide. Bíonn an díospóireacht seo againn go rialta sa Teach seo anois, go háirithe ó thaobh an ráta de, ach tá an rún atá os comhair an Tí níos leithne ná seo agus sílim gur rún iontach maith é agus go ndéanann...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: On amendment No. 8, obviously there is flexibility in this regard, but this creates an open-ended provision whereby the appeal commissioner can decide on any other matters. Are there restrictions as to what an appeal commissioner could do, which could make the process too cumbersome to appeal? While four different areas are laid out in the legislation, the fifth - namely, the additional...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The amendment includes the phrase "any other matters that, for the time being, are stipulated by the Appeal Commissioners for the purposes of this subsection". The Minister of State should correct me if I am wrong, but someone who is making an appeal will be guided by this provision in terms of "the grounds for the appeal in sufficient detail for the Appeal Commissioners to be able to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It pertains to a specific case. If I am appealing a decision of the Revenue Commissioners, I will need to know what I must do in respect of this subsection and my notice of appeal. At this point, I will know I must include my name and address, my PPS number, where the appeal is being made and the grounds for the appeal. As this is to give notice to the commissioners, the commissioners...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, because the Minister of State mentioned it would be on a case-by-case basis, is this how it will operate, or will it be a standard addition to declare, for example, one's postal address or one's X, Y or Z will also be needed, and that this would apply to everybody?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 14:In page 33, line 27, to delete "Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every" and substitute "Every". I will not pursue this amendment as I intend to resubmit it on Report Stage to propose only the deletion of subsection (3). I want to address that aspect. We had a good deal of discussion on this issue during the pre-legislative scrutiny stage of the legislation and I...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I take on board what the Minister of State has said. Obviously, we heard from a wide range of opinions, including members of the committee. It is like a court of law. It is like saying that if a man was accused of manslaughter or murder, the case should be tried in public but that if he wanted it to be held in private, he could make an application and the courts would have to hold it...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We will not tear the backside out of this one. Obviously, the Minister is-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: That is very parliamentary in the part of the world where I reside.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I have never been furnished with the list of words that are not to be spoken in this House. I believe in tax transparency and in the right of individuals to have certain dealings that are private. The Minister of State has expressed the Minister's view on this matter. I am not sure what his personal view is.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Very good. I will come back to this matter on Report Stage, when we will have a further go at it. This will need to be reviewed. It is important that we take this approach to a great deal of legislation. I know the Minister of State will not agree to write it into the legislation that this will be reviewed in 12 months or whatever. I hope the Minister, Deputy Noonan, does not return as...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: -----there should be a commitment from the Government that there will be a review of this section within a short period of time. That would allow us to see how it is working, whether it is effective and whether it is in line with the spirit of where the majority of the committee wanted it to go. I was a minority voice in this regard during the pre-legislative stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister of State to clarify again what is meant by the removal of the phrase "as soon as practicable".

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Where does that appear in this legislation? I understand that "as soon as practicable" is being deleted from line 25.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I agree completely with Deputy Michael McGrath. It is a fundamental point in the context of the Bill and it is a fundamental right of an individual to appeal. I recall the points we made on Second Stage and those that were made by the joint committee. This is one of the areas in which there was no division among committee members on the question that the right of appeal to the Circuit...