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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the statement in the programme for Government regarding the intention to "work with the Central Bank to amend the code of conduct on mortgage arrears to include an obligation on providers of mortgage credit to provide a range of sustainable arrears solutions, this code of conduct will be put on a statutory basis", what these sustainable arrears...

An Teanga Gaeilge: Statements (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Níl mórán ama agam so díreoidh mé ar chúpla pointe. Ar dtús báire, tá go leor ráite fá dtaobh den fhadhb atá againn agus sin nach bhfuil Aire sinsearach ansin. Sin fadhb millteanach mhór. Ba chóir go mbeadh Aire sinsearach freagrach as an nGaeilge agus as an nGaeltacht ag leibhéal Rialtais agus go mbeadh éilimh...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is doing the exact same thing again: she is not answering the question.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the expected timeline as to when Irish variable mortgage rates will move in line with the European average, in view of the statement in the programme for Government regarding the Government’s intention to take all necessary action to tackle high variable rates. [10542/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a tribunal is currently in place to consider individual applications in relation to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; the last date on which the tribunal formally convened; if a dedicated tribunal is not currently in place, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10806/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the national capacity review of the Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10865/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the volume and category of calls received by the Ambulance Service in respect of each division in County Donegal in each of the years since 2010, including Letterkenny, Carndonagh, Killybegs, Dungloe, the Finn Valley, Ballyshannon, and Donegal town, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10866/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (18 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 22 March 2016, if he is aware that the information provided is ambiguous and somewhat deceptive; if he will provide the accurate schedule of the times of when ambulances are on duty in respect of each of the base stations serving all divisions in County Donegal including, Letterkenny, Carndonagh, Killybegs,...

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to share five minutes of my time with Deputy Tóibín.

Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I listened with interest to what the previous speakers had to say. I would like to focus particularly on what the Minister, Deputy Noonan, said. He was completely off the mark when he blamed the drop in the shares of Irish banks on the publication of this Bill or indeed, given that I do not think the Bill had been published when that decrease took place, on the media commentary on the...

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am looking forward to the debate on Thursday in regard to the changes to the Order. Perhaps we will need to look again at page 27, when we have sanctions for Ministers who refuse to answer questions, and provide that this will extend to Leaders' Questions, given the Tánaiste's refusal to answer simple questions on the Higgins report. When is it anticipated joint committees will be...

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: And through the Seanad?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will return to a surviving spouse a sum of money which was recovered from a deceased person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9427/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Awards (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts she will make to expedite an appeal submitted to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal by a person (details supplied) in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9446/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his previous assertion that the estimated cost attached to the real estate investment trust scheme relates not to an exemption from tax but rather to a move from direct taxation of rental income in the hands of investors to the taxation of dividends distributed to investors from profits arising from that rental income under this scheme, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of dividend withholding tax that has subsequently been refunded to persons and companies in accordance with the relevant double taxation agreements and through other reclaim forms in respect of dividend payments under the real estate investment trust scheme by year in tabular form. [9454/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have paid the domicile levy and the corresponding amount raised since its introduction by year in tabular form. [9455/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised from the domicile levy were the Irish property value threshold lowered from €5 million to €3 million and the yearly income tax threshold increased from €0.2 million to €0.4 million. [9456/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (17 May 2016)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance the historic contributions to the EU budget in monetary value for each of the years 2006 to 2015 in tabular form. [9596/16]