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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that a person (details supplied) has supplied sufficient evidence to show that they reside in County Derry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8734/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that a person (details supplied) is resident in County Derry; the reason the person was issued a compromise release term to release a seized vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8735/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request that insurers agree commitments to reduce prices in line with reforms introduced using a template (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional costs in terms of inflation and other costs that will be incurred as a result of delays to infrastructure projects in view of the overrun in the cost of the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test Fees (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per year of removing the fee for the national car test excluding retests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 4 October 2018, if there have been changes in the regulatory status of the company; if the Central Bank has responded to correspondence indicating that it will regulate this type of lending activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7736/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Remit (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if local authorities are classified as financial service providers for the purposes of complaints to the Financial Services and Pension Ombudsman in view of their role in administering and providing mortgages through the Rebuilding Ireland mortgage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7740/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on ensuring that flood insurance is available at a reasonable price to householders; the flood protection plans in place to ensure a location (details supplied) will be revived from the areas of high risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7803/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each reduction of €2,500 until a threshold of €100,000 in the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each increase of €5,000 in the maximum reliefs allowed under the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8261/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each reduction of 1% (details supplied) in the aggregate of specified reliefs of adjusted income allowed under the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8262/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend entitlement to the July provision scheme to children with Down's syndrome; if so, when such a broadening of the scheme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8213/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if correspondence has been received from a person (details supplied); when the person will receive a reply to the correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has yet to provide a response other than to confirm its receipt to a protected disclosure of information it received on 16 February 2018 (details supplied); the status of the disclosure and the associated investigation into the allegations contained therein; the reason none of the complainants or witnesses involved have been called upon...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which two formally vacant HSE posts were filled (details supplied); if the recruitment processes and execution of same were identical with respect to both posts; if not, the reason for such variation; if interviews were part of the recruitment process to choose a successful candidate in the case of both these roles; if so, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of progress being made to deliver the A5/N2 road project; if an expected timeline for the completion of the project is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7775/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application to the European Union for the revision of the TEN-T core network including the reinstatement of the cross-Border western arc has been submitted as per the commitment outlined in the programme for partnership Government; the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8143/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (14 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland will oppose the legislative package of the European Commission, which includes the non-performing loans directive. [7513/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (14 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Some of us are doing our best to defeat the vulture culture at home, but there is a danger that this EU directive will take the disastrous Irish experience and enshrine it as best practice throughout the European Union. My Sinn Féin colleague, Matt Carthy, MEP, has been ringing the alarm bells on this throughout Europe, but where does the Irish Government stand on the European...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (14 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The issue of requiring the banks to hold additional capital for losses they may incur is one we support, but I wish to focus on the pro-vulture part of this directive. The best option for the Irish people - indeed, working people throughout Europe - is to throw out this proposal. Failing that, massive change is needed to ensure that any type of consumer protection, or indeed human rights...