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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will estimate the number of new consultant recruits that will be subject to the recently-announced 30% reduction in remuneration for firstly the two months of November/December 2012 and secondly for the 12 months of 2013; if he will estimate the euro saving in each of 2012 and in 2013 resulting from the 30% reduction in remuneration for such new recruits...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Programme Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on when the list of the payments made by the State to private land owners in 2010 and 2011 to acquire land for use in the public capital programme. [44382/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Strength (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Last Saturday evening in the town of Kincasslagh in County Donegal, which is probably best known throughout the country for being the home town of Daniel O'Donnell, over 200 local residents turned up for a public meeting. It was a meeting to voice their concerns about the ongoing and escalating anti-social behaviour and criminal activity occurring in the area. This activity culminated in a...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Strength (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I have a couple of points to make to the Minister. His last comments show that he fails to understand rural areas. It is not about the size of the station but about the presence and service it provides. Culdaff, Dunkineely and Doochary are wee villages and do not need a massive Garda station, but they need the service. The service was taken away from them by the Government. The Minister...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I do not know who the Minister is trying to kid with his last statement. It is a bit rich for him as Minister for Health to come to this House and state this is his guiding policy while at the same time overseeing the removal of 1 million hours of home care support from these very vulnerable people. It is an appalling decision by the Government and the parties which will support the...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I am very conscious that we are talking about figures - 450,000 here, a 4% cut there and savings of €8 million. However, behind every one of those figures is an individual with a particular need for care. Many of these individuals have been in receipt of home help support for many years. As the HSE on the Government's instruction has decided to cut more hours, they have been assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide further details on his senior level meeting with the World Bank; and if it will signal any change in Ireland's economic engagement with developing countries. [44818/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade following his public commitment to reaching the UN target of development aid spending of 0.7 of GNP, if he will specify a timescale for reaching this target; and in view of this public commitment if he will ensure that Budget 2013 will not cut official development assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the cost to the Exchequer of reducing the excise rate on fuel per litre by one cent; two cent; three cent; four cent; five cent; six cent; seven cent; eight cent; nine cent and ten cent. [45105/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Intellectual Property (17 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance further to a report in a British publication which claims that a company (details supplied) has transferred US$7 billion of costs for intellectual property from Switzerland via Luxemburg to this State and is being given tax relief in this State equivalent to US$7 billion overtime, if the Revenue Commissioners are aware of same and have approved any such scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to complete the Western Arc project before the end of this Government’s term [45132/12]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I am disappointed that the amendments have been ruled out of order. This goes to the crux of the Bill, regarding the requirements contained therein to enshrine in domestic law the austere rules contained within the austerity treaty. I had tabled a proposal that instead of committing the Government to imposing such budgetary rules, in the future it would have an option to impose them. This...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I query the reason amendment No. 2 has been ruled out of order and seek an explanation.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The legislation goes further than implementation of the rules of the austerity treaty. As members are aware, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is part of it, as the reporting mechanism and what the Government would be obliged to do in responding to the advice of the council also are included. I am not questioning the ruling but simply seeking clarification of the rules. However, the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: My question was directed to the Minister.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: By not including the text that we would implement the rules only if it was conducive to the social and economic development of the State, it is an admission that we will implement them regardless of whether it is conducive to the social and economic development of the State. This is a big problem concerning the path the Government has been following. We have been focused very much on...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: My final point-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: I accept that, but I am speaking to section 2, not the proposed amendments. The Minister has said the purpose of section 2 is to bind this and future Governments to rules in order that we do not go crazy in the future. There is no doubt that there was an element of craziness to what happened during the boom time. The Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government inflated the property bubble....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This goes to the core of the section which, as the Minister said, will stop the craziness. Up to 2008, before the economic collapse, the State was in compliance with the rules enshrined in domestic legislation. The Minister has a valid point in questioning whether there was an actual structural surplus at the time, given the volume of transactional taxes. The figures were accepted by the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: My question was how would we define the model to be used in calculating the structural deficit. Will it be defined by the Department of Finance or will the European model be used? Will the Minister publicise how the structural deficit will be defined? The Minister has suggested that the structural deficit, in how it was calculated in 2007 and previous years, was probably inaccurate. He is...