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Written Answers — Department of Finance: General Government Debt (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost of Government borrowing in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50105/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the rate of VAT on electricity energy products and supplies from 13.5% to 9% and 0%, respectively, in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50164/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the rate of VAT on telephone bills and charges from 23% to 17.5%, 13.5%, 9% and 0%, respectively, in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50165/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the rate of VAT on Internet bills and charges from 23% to 17.5%, 13.5%, 9% and 0%, respectively, in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50166/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing the rate of VAT on television bills and charges from 23% to 17.5%, 13.5%, 9% and 0%, respectively in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50167/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Brexit contingency funding allocated in each of the years 2020 to 2025 as outlined in table 11 of the economic and fiscal outlook in budget 2020 will be allocated in the event of an orderly Brexit. [50100/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure required to respond to demographic pressures across each Department in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49818/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected pre-committed expenditure in each of the years 2020 to 2025 in the event of an orderly Brexit by pre-committed spending categories of demographics, the Public Service Stability Agreement, carryover costs for budget 2019 and 2020 and pre-committed capital expenditure, in tabular form. [50099/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the pre-committed capital expenditure in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50101/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the frustration expressed by community pharmacists due to the failure to restore the levels of fees previously paid to the sector for the provision of medicines and services which were reduced under FEMPI; if his attention has been further drawn to claims made by unions representing the sector that a failure to reverse the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive confirmation if a balance of payment is owing from their UK state pension made to the authorities here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49949/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We are not even into December yet and there are unbearable pressures on our hospitals. Like many, I read the account of the Tánaiste's parliamentary colleague who was embarrassed at the overcrowding in the emergency department in Crumlin. The question that many of us are asking is what planet has the Government been living on for the past number of years. This has been the lived...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The solution is a rent freeze.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin has been arguing that for three years and the Government has denied it with the support of Fianna Fáil. Rents have gone up by €5,000 as a result of Government inaction.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Those people are homeless because of increasing rents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government could do both. It could introduce the rent freeze and invest in additional housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: As my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, laid out to the House yesterday, the Government's housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland, is in its fourth year. The results are stark. Homelessness is up 67% while more than 10,000 of our citizens are homeless. That is the new normal under Fine Gael in the country with the fastest growing economy in Europe. The number of homeless children has increased by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is time the Tánaiste took his head out of the sand and got the point. His plan is not working. No matter how much spin and statistics he puts out, it does not wash.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is that new rents in Dublin city cost more than €2,000. In the Tánaiste's own home city of Cork, they are €1,300. He may think those levels of rent are acceptable but they are not acceptable to ordinary people. The reality is that, since this Government took office, homelessness has increased by more than 67% and child homelessness has increased by 81%. More...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will try to be as brief as possible. I thank the witness for presenting to the committee. There is not much of a silver lining when we are coming at Brexit and the tables in the presentation are quite clear in that respect. I was trying to see a positive indicator in any of the data but they are all negative or neutral. Is it the view of the ESRI that a deal scenario is the most likely...