Results 241-260 of 35,959 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case for provision of an ASD room in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28501/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering changes to standards to include second homes and holiday homes in the defective blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering changing standards to include penalty downsizing without penalties and modular homes to the defective home scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 542. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in Donegal (details supplied) will receive an appointment in Children’s Hospital Ireland, Crumlin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28504/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Of course it does.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Government can stop it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire chuig an choiste. Tá cúpla ceist agam. Cuireadh mo chéad cheist cheana ach tá soiléireacht á lorg agam. On the Department of Finance, a question was asked about the €1 million for the EU Presidency. All of this relates to staff in two areas, namely the Minister’s Department and the permanent representation....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Will there be another ten or so for the permanent representation?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On the same Vote, there is a staff complement of 415 in the Department. I am aware that the Minister is going to increase the number at the end of the year for the reasons he outlined. Are all 415 positions filled or are there staff on secondment? Are there vacancies?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The committee has asked about forecasting. The Revenue Commissioners do quite a large amount of forecasting, but how many staff are dealing with this in the Department?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, including economic forecasting.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It would be helpful.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is what I was going to suggest. I thank the Minister. With regard to the 415 employees, there is Exchequer pay of just above €30 million. The line below the one relating to that concerns Exchequer pensions, which amount to €250,000 in respect of ten employees. Could the Minister explain that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister want me to move on?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No problem at all. Let me move abroad with the next question. Questions have been asked about tariffs, but there is also the matter of the implementation of the BEPS process. Could the Minister outline the undertaxed profits provision rule, which relates to any jurisdiction that does not apply a minimum effective tax rate of 15%? We know some jurisdictions may calculate it in a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I could not agree more with the Minister. Could he state the time at which it will become real for Revenue to apply the tax? Will it be later this year? Let me move on to the subject of the Comptroller and Auditor General. I will group some of my questions. Could the Minister clarify whether the Comptroller and Auditor General has sought additional staff resources from Revenue? With...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Not just on IT, but any wasteful spending the Minister is aware of.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: My final question again relates to the Revenue Commissioners and the €12.8 million spend. Will the Minister explain what subhead 8 is, which is vehicles in frontier management expenses? I presume it relates to having Revenue officials on the road.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding allocated for the Dublin Metro for 2026 in the expenditure projection in the Annual Progress Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28077/25]