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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 228. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for hip surgery at Mayo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45533/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 229. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for foot surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 232. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a procedure in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45537/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a procedure undertaken in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45538/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45539/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Barnes and his team for the presentation. I want to talk about tax buoyancy and the forecasts. Mr. Barnes's opening statement and the pre-budget statement published by the council last week focused on what could be described as a robust and quick recovery of the economy as restrictions ease and normal economic activity resumes. He said the council has developed a recovery...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We know the SES is outdated, and was outdated even as it was being published because the factors that were known at the time were not factored into it. The SES outlines the budgetary package of €4.7 billion for next year and considers a deficit of, I understand, 3.4% for 2022. Dr. Casey said that on the last page of the report, the council outlined its prediction for the deficit....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. The data we are starting to see would lend us to think that is a likely scenario. The council has been critical of the Government's plan for €0.5 billion in tax cuts. We know the cumulative effect of that over a four-year period. What it is planning to do will cost in the region of €5 billion in tax measures. I ask the witnesses to expand on that. Does...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Moynihan is absolutely right. We need the legislation to look at whether they are passing on the full amount of reductions. We all want the same thing here - we want money in people's pockets - but the Government needs to bring forward that legislation. Even with the changes Liberty Insurance has brought in, it is next to impossible now to compare the new quotes because it has...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Unfortunately, the Minister has played a role in this. He has incentivised the vultures and the speculators. We saw it in the debate earlier on about the core part of Housing for All where developers can avoid the provision of 20% social and affordable homes, and that is part of the Minister's plan. Therefore, he has, unfortunately, had an influence. Where he has not had an influence is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tell us.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Will you answer any of my questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I want to know what you are thinking of doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is because you do not have the detail. That is the problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We know that some of these large profitable companies will organise their tax affairs in a way to limit their tax liability. In 2017, after parliamentary questions and campaigning by Christian Aid, the Minister called out aggressive tax planning and closed it down as a result of the agreement. The problem is that while the agreement appears to be working in terms of what is in it, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: As the Minister said, I have acknowledged the fact that the agreement does work to a certain point. All the four companies are Abbott subsidiaries so surely someone is looking at this. Does the Minister dispute the findings of the Christian Aid report? The key thing here for me - and let us be clear about this - is that Abbott broke no law. It wants to reduce its tax liability. Revenue...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a vacant property tax in the context of budget 2022; if so, the current status of those plans; the date by which it will be introduced; and if he will expedite those plans in the context of the housing emergency. [44866/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We all know the State and its people are in the grip of a housing emergency and there is a lack of genuine affordable homes. We have rip-off rents that continue to squeeze incomes and harm people's lives. There are policies that could change the dynamic and provide solutions to people who need them. The Government's Housing for All plan kicked the can down the road when it comes to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Code (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is the problem; the Housing for All plan does not actually deal with the urgency of the crisis that we have. In June 2017, my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, called on the Minister to introduce a vacant home tax. Time went on and on and house prices became unaffordable. Rents are going through the roof and families are pressed in terms of their housing needs, and more time went on....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Banking Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance the correspondence or contact he has had with retail banks and the Central Bank regarding the use of allowances under the mortgage lending rules for mortgage applicants who are required a minimum deposit of 20% but have properties affected by mica and pyrite. [44865/21]