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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Surrounding Recent Reappointment of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland (13 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: If the board has it in writing that Mr. Kavanagh will not invoke his CID in 2021, it would be helpful if Mr. Keeling were to provide a copy of that document to the joint committee.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the current threshold for a tax free award from an employer to an employee under the Revenue small benefits exemption scheme; his plans to change the threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31278/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive a 2015 disadvantaged payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31228/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: One of the important issues is cashflow and everybody here understands that. The €150 million will be a huge benefit, if it gets out to the people concerned. That is the issue, so let us not tiptoe around it. If the pillar banks impose criteria that disallow the money from being disbursed, it is pointless. What are the Department's plans regarding the criteria for the €150...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I will let that slide.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: That is more like it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: We could say Sinn Féin wants it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: It is much of a muchness. One field could be a terrific field and the field beside it might not be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: That is not the issue. The issue is the criteria that will be applied by the two pillar banks. If the wrong criteria are applied it will be pointless. For example, Glanbia, Finance Ireland, Rabobank and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, had a similar fund of €150 million. The concept was great but I spoke to farmers who did not meet the criteria, which were based on milk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Priorities of Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Discussion (25 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: It would be very important that, before the Department goes to the banks with its criteria and details, it make a presentation to this committee. This €150 million is to provide assistance to the cash flow. I spent two years talking to bankers at the banking enquiry and would hate to think that people with common sense knowledge of farming were not given some opportunity to have some...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak to the Bill and want to touch on a number of issues. We have heard a lot of talk today about equal pay and the full restoration of pay in the public sector. I do not know many people who would have an issue with this. The only difficulty, as with everything, is the cost. The figure we have been given for full restoration of pay in the public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (27 Oct 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 151. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the single farm grant will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32401/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (2 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will have an educational needs assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32874/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (2 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be paid a 2016 single farm payment; if the application is in order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32560/16]

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Districts (8 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: This is a simple question. Page 98 of the programme for Government outlines that there will be a review of Garda districts. When will the review start, what will be its timeframe and when is it expected to conclude?

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Districts (8 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I thank the Minister for State for the reply, which indicates that within 12 months the review will be completed, including the review of Garda boundaries. I wish to put on the record my strongly held view that the decision by Assistant Garda Commissioner Jack Nolan, who was then based in the south east, to merge two districts was a terrible one. It was the worst decision on the policing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (8 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the status of the Legal Services Regulation Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33675/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (9 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons with a medical card living in County Wexford have to pay a fee for accident and emergency at Dublin dental hospital while persons with the same medical card from counties Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare do not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33912/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I concur with the two Deputies. It would be very helpful if we had such a debate or conversation, formal or informal, whichever way the Chairman wants to go with it. We are in a new dynamic. Deputy Doherty is correct about the pledge, but I remind him that George W. Bush made the same pledge during his campaign and did not fulfil it in an eight-year period. The economic cycle is having an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Michael D'Arcy: I also disagree with Deputy Doherty. I want to put on record that the USC was also reduced in last year's budget. The objective was that the significant burden of income tax would be reduced so people would have more spending power, and that proved to be correct. The USC rates were reduced, people spent more and we got more people back into work. To put this in context, at the peak of the...