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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously, the Department supports the role of the Chief Whip and we heard her recent comments, which were that if the EU pursued Ireland in respect of its corporation tax rate, we would not, to use her words, be seen for dust. In case that is lost in translation, it means we would withdraw from the EU. These same comments were echoed by the Taoiseach's former junior Minister for Finance,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach may want to have a word with his Chief Whip after this meeting. She said it on Vincent Browne's programme, which is available on playback.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach might go out to him some night. He will show the Taoiseach the clip. On the Taoiseach's recent correspondence with the EU President, Mr. Juncker, on flexibility in the fiscal rules - rules that the Taoiseach helped negotiate and sold to the Irish people and on which we had a referendum - will he furnish to the committee a copy of the letter to Mr. Juncker and any response...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad the Taoiseach supported our position in respect of them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify the question, will the Taoiseach make the correspondence with President Juncker and the response available to the committee?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Is there not a gap between Second Stage and Committee Stage?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I thought there had to be a two-week gap.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: If Committee Stage is taken next Thursday, when is the deadline for amendments? It only passed Second Stage last night.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I question that. I thought there was a commitment in the programme for Government to provide ample time. It passed Second Stage last night. I will try to work towards it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: It is a short Bill but it is important.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release an updated version of the summer statement, given Britain voting to leave the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18996/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Statements (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance for details on how water charges were treated in the summer statement financials over the five year period 2017 to 2021 with regard to revenue projections, expenditure projections, fiscal space projections and allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18997/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Legal Costs (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs to the State to date and the likely final costs of a court case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18974/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for inpatient and day case treatment at Letterkenny University Hospital, per specialty and in tabular form, and who have been waiting for six, nine, 12, 15 months and more than 15 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18927/16]

Single Resolution Board (Loan Facility Agreement) Bill 2016: Instruction to Committee (29 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I note the Minister of State's remarks in his reply to Second Stage on some of the more technical aspects of the legislation, which we will discuss in detail on Committee Stage. We will participate and engage with the Minister of State in this regard at that point. As I mentioned on Second Stage, tacking on unrelated amendments to other legislation is not something with which I or my party...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: However, the criminal investigation was ongoing.

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Michael McGrath had no problem looking for a commission of inquiry with full knowledge that the PSNI had requested a criminal investigation-----

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: -----and that the National Crime Agency had announced that it was beginning with a criminal investigation.

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy had no problem at that stage looking for a commission of investigation.