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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (26 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to current planning rules which allow for the exemption of small-scale domestic property extensions from acquiring planning permission prior to construction, if he will clarify if it is the case that this exemption does not extend to properties located within special areas of conservation, SAC; the options...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I add my support to the amendment before us dealing with the pyrite issue. We know from replies to parliamentary questions that only 76 households have been excused from paying this levy, although 2,000 applied. The statistics demonstrate that fewer than 5% of these households have been successful in their application. It is well established that the scheme has been ineffective, to say the...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: How can the Minister of State say with a straight face that the Government is for equality and then justify the claim by saying that those in Government want to get people back into work? That has nothing to do with it. That is not an example of equality. The Government punishes people who may be out of work. The rationale is that the Government is for equality because if people get a job...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Those measures simply do not stack up. How was the Government for equality when it cut supports for loan parents? How was that an equality measure? What was it that ticked inside the Minister of State and made him think that was a good equality measure? It seems those responsible saw all the reports relating to the challenges that lone parents face but decided to give it to them in the...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If all of this is done, as the Minister of State suggests, in the way the amendment is tabled, one would simply accept what is here. Because we have debated this at length in budget after budget, and have been faced by regressive budgets from the Minister, his party and the Government, the Minister of State knows that equality budgeting is far removed from his ideological position. We have...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The proof is in the pudding. We have seen the types of austerity the Government unleashed on citizens the length and breadth of this State without any concern for the impact on certain sectors of society, be they based on gender, income, age, marital or disability status. The type of spreadsheets the Minister of State is talking about in the budget book or the analysis from the...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 21:In page 89, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"67. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann an analysis of the tax changes in this Act, and the total of tax changes and spending adjustments of Budget 2016, setting out the continuing impact on people based on their gender, income, age,...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I add my party's support to Deputy McGrath's amendment. It addresses the anomaly which exists, whereby charities are not afforded the same treatment as the many businesses that are able to reclaim VAT incurred. As Deputy McGrath said, this issue has been raised by charities for many years. I remember raising the issue when I was a Member of the Seanad approximately seven years ago. There...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I am going to speak again.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge the Minister's point about having full data in three years time. I want to re-emphasise the point, however, that these are very large companies with huge profits. Some 140 of them have individually paid corporation tax in excess of €5 million in the last year. More than 400 of them pay corporation tax of at least €1 million per annum. There may be new companies...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Beyond the substance of the debate on whether the knowledge development box is positive or negative, beyond the accusation that some multinational companies based here are paying corporation tax at a very low rate, beyond the fact that the European Commission is taking this issue more seriously than many Deputies on both sides of this House, and while still acknowledging the positive role...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to citizens information centres, and to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, in each of the past five years. [42010/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (25 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of staff in citizens information centres and in the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, in each of the past five years. [42011/15]

Credit Union Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an rún atá curtha síos ag an Teachta McGrath agus roimh na daoine atá inár gcuideachta anocht fá choinne an díospóireacht seo. Níl dabht ar bith ann gur ceist fíor-thábhachtach í an cheist seo. Aontaím le cuid mhór den méid a dúirt an Teachta Nolan fá dtaobh den dul chun cinn...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Assumptions are very dangerous and I would not assume anything in relation to the rates. The Minister knows that on Committee Stage we pointed out that his own party colleagues - Deputy Rabbitte's party colleagues - believed a larger tax take should be for future discoveries and licences that have been granted from now on. Let us make that clear. This was a very modest amendment. Going...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to hear the Minister's response.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 6:In page 60, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“32. The Minister shall, within nine months from the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the expected impact of the Knowledge Development Box, including its expected beneficiaries, expected tax take and cost to the Exchequer.”. This amendment is on the...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge the fact that the Minister actually spoke to the amendment. The quality of debate from his backbenchers is appalling. It is no wonder the country got into the state it is in. We are dealing with the Finance Bill and it is a very simple amendment about whether profits accrued from now on should apply to all oil and gas licences. Whether Deputy Paul Murphy paid his household...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4:In page 39, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:"20.The Minister shall, within nine months from the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on options available with regards to ensuring that the new Petroleum Products Tax applies to all earnings from all petroleum revenue within Irish territory, regardless of discovery...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: You have done your fair share of that.