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

Pearse Doherty: My similar proposal was ruled out of order. Under it, this section would not have commenced until such a study had been undertaken. Deputy McGrath's proposal is better than nothing, but it is not for us to say that we should just give this a go and introduce a tax rebate despite the fact that many of us believe it will increase house prices and most observers who have appeared before...

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

Pearse Doherty: I understand the amendment I tabled which would have had the effect of the section not commencing was ruled out of order. I can understand the reason the Minister's arguments for not agreeing to it, but what I do not understand because he did not respond to the question I put to him directly is what is preventing his officials from carrying out the type of assessment sought in a number of...

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

Pearse Doherty: Houses not already in the pipeline will not be built in 12 months. Therefore, the argument does not stack up. That is one of the big problems with the scheme in the first place. Obtaining planning permission for development takes a number of years, more than likely two years on average. The Minister has announced a scheme that will last for three years, but the reality is that it will...

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

Pearse Doherty: I would like to see data but I probably would not dispute that and there is a good reason for it. God help the many people who were forced to buy properties in many of the developments built during the Celtic tiger period because many of the properties that were built were not up to standard and were not overseen in the way that they should have been. We know of the consequences of that in...

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

Pearse Doherty: Was that in a formal meeting or did they supply submissions that could be made available to us?

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

Pearse Doherty: When the officials engaged with the financial institutions that we either own or in which we have a substantial stake, did any of them mention a fact the Governor pointed out after the Minister published the scheme, namely, that the average loan-to-value ratio rate on which they are granting mortgages is below the loan-to-value ratio of 80%?

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

Pearse Doherty: It has the effect of widening the scheme and providing a tax rebate to individuals who can easily meet the prudential rules of the Central Bank. It has the effect of widening the scheme and providing a tax rebate to individuals who can easily meet the prudential rules of the Central Bank.

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

Pearse Doherty: Of course I know that.

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

Pearse Doherty: That means, however, that they can easily meet it. The Central Bank's rules on the loan-to-value ratio are such that, even if one were purchasing a house worth €1 million, one would need a deposit of less than 20% of the value. When the Minister decides to reduce the percentage to 70%, it means people who did not have a problem meeting the rules are now able to get the tax rebate....

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

Pearse Doherty: Given that there is no mortgage that could be taken out at a loan-to-value ratio of 78% that would have difficulty meeting the Central Bank rules, was it not a bit of an eye-opener to the Minister that the very rationale behind this section was such that, given the difficulty of accumulating the deposit, he was barking up the wrong tree on this one? The Governor of the Central Bank rightly...

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

Pearse Doherty: Was it all a matter of the banks in which we had a share? The Department engaged with AIB, Permanent TSB and Bank of Ireland.

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

Pearse Doherty: Could the Minister supply his speaking note to members prior to the meeting?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (9 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the liquidation process at IBRC including a list of all groups of creditors; the likelihood that they will be paid; and the likely financial result for the state. [33903/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (9 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify that it is HSE policy that it is the responsibility of individual home help workers to secure cover during periods of planned annual leave; if workers are prevented from taking planned leave should they be unable to find suitable cover; the role the employer takes to source cover during such periods; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Clár na mBéilí Scoile (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection an ndéanfar breithniú ar iarratas atá fós le cur isteach ag scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí tugtha) chun bheith páirteach i Scéim na mBéilí Scoile; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [33264/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the stage at which a person must make a disclosure in respect of property which is expected to be inherited but which is currently under probate administration for the purposes of calculating the means of a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33770/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 275. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht agus tagairt á déanamh do Dhíospóireacht na Saincheisteanna Tráthúla ar an 13 Deireadh Fómhair, an gclúdófar na scoileanna breise uile atá fógartha ag an Aire mar chuid de Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 309. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide for each month to date in 2016, in tabular form, the number of occasions when scans and images from the radiology department at Letterkenny University Hospital were physically transported to other hospitals to be analysed; the mode of transportation used in each such case; the cost of transportation incurred by the hospital in each such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to provide alternative facilities for a general practitioner surgery (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33358/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (8 Nov 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 312. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to develop a new primary care centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33359/16]