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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (22 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29305/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Aquaculture Licences (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State mentioned that an EIS is required for finfish, and the Department can carry out a screening for shellfish. The Department waived the requirement for an EIS in this application, which 3,200 people in the community expressed concern about. I am not sure if the Minister of State is familiar with the community, and I know he is still new to the Department. I am not sure...

Topical Issue Debate: Aquaculture Licences (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé iontach buíoch go bhfuil an cheist seo roghnaithe mar is ábhar iontach tábhachtach é, go háirithe do mo Dháilcheantar féin i dTír Chonaill, ach tá a fhios agam ó a bheith ag caint leis an Teachta Ferris go bhfuil an rud céanna amhlaidh i gContae Chiarraí agus go leor ceantar eile. Countless coastal communities are...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: An cheist a bhí ann ná cén fáth nach raibh an tAire Stáit le cúramaí Gaeltachta anseo nuair a bhí deis ag Teachtaí Dála na ceisteanna a chur. Níor tugadh freagra ar sin. An cheist atá agamsa, the question I have is fá dtaobh de árachas Setanta. Setanta Insurance has collapsed, as a result of which over 1,000 claimants...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Taoiseach believe the threshold was reached?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to stop the closure of rural banks and the diminution of services at them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29242/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (21 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if the escrow account in which the estimated €13 billion plus interest from a ruling regarding a company (details supplied) will accrue interest; if so, the rate of same; if the interest will be treated as income due to the State; the estimated interest foregone as a result of the delay in collecting the money; and if he will make a statement on the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses. I was delayed coming in. It was not that I was ignoring the witnesses.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We had a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, which Deputy McGrath also attended. Unfortunately, we had a clash, but I am glad to be able to ask questions of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. My first question follows from the last conversation on revenue buoyancy and unexpected gains in terms of corporation tax receipts or otherwise....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Windfall is categorised as corporation tax receipts going from €5 billion last year to €7 billion this year when that type of increase was not forecasted.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I know that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will come back to that point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Going forward, where the expenditure benchmark is there, foreign direct investment and whether there is a €3 billion windfall in corporation tax receipts will not actually impact on our ability to increase expenditure year on year if we are compliant.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: But that is only because of the ten year-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: When we talk about the volatility of corporation tax receipts, and those receipts being spent in the economy, and we know there are a lot of demands in terms of housing, health and infrastructure, if we are complying with the expenditure benchmark we can only spend a certain amount of money in any given year anyway.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is that discussion a moot discussion?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That we are spending all the corporation tax receipts and they are volatile.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I know.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Discussion (20 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: An impression is being given the bumper corporation tax receipts result in increased expenditure, where the reality is even if we did not have the bumper corporation tax receipts we saw several years ago, and they are increasing bit by bit, the same level of expenditure would have taken place. It would have been just probably more debt borrowing to fund this type of expenditure, because the...