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Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This amendment deals with the supply side of the housing crisis. The way to deal with it is not through tax breaks for landlords, but rather by building additional houses. Deputies on the Government side have veered into Sweden and the Stormont House Agreement, which the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade supports, as I am sure the Government does. Through Sinn Féin's efforts, an...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: A half-arsed attempt.

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It was a terrible attempt to try to deal with the fact that more than 100,000 individuals are on the housing waiting list. What analysis has the Minister done to determine how this measure will address the crisis? It will not put another brick on a site, a slab of mortar in between bricks or build any homes. Given that there is a supply-side problem, not only in social housing but also in...

Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Speak to the amendment, for continuity purposes.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 151. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the space permitted for exemptions from the deposit rules used by the banks to date, subject to the Central Bank of Ireland's macro-prudential mortgage lending rule, by regulated bank in tabular form; the value of these exempted loans; the average mortgage within this set of exempted mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 165. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that paid corporation tax in the bands €0 to €50,000, €50,000 plus to €100,000, €100,00 plus to €500,000, €500,000 plus to €1 million, €1 million plus to €5 million, and €5 million plus, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41606/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance the average increase in corporation tax paid in 2015 to date, by the top 20% of companies; and the equivalent amount at this point in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41607/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Government Expenditure (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Question No. 208 of 17 November 2015, if he will list the number of other calls on the central fund referred to in the reply. [41634/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Data (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of exemptions requested by individual Departments, State agencies and local authorities to the moratorium on recruitment and promotion since its introduction in March 2009, by request, including the name of the requesting body and the reasons given; the number of exemptions granted for promotions, recruitments and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date that each local authority was advised in writing by the Valuation Office regarding the global revaluations in 2015; if any advance notice of this intended revaluation was issued; and if so, when. [41684/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Local Authority Functions (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 3 November 2015, whereby the local implementation group of the 2011 Killybegs Jobs Initiative has been reporting to Donegal County Council as part of its work, the nature of this co-operation between the group and the local authority; the role the local authority has played in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies Data (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of companies in County Donegal which have received funding and grant aid from Bord Iascaigh Mhara, by name and by the total amount received for each year from 2005 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41784/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41785/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 318. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the new legal measures to allow a debtor to challenge a bank's veto in insolvency arrangements have been used; the results in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41399/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the ban on blood donations from males who have previously engaged in sexual intercourse with other males, as enforced by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service; if the details of the data source used to justify and base this exclusion, which has been cited as necessary in order to reduce the risk of infected blood entering the blood supply;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 402. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to lift the permanent deferral policy currently enforced by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in which persons who have resided for 12 months or more in total and cumulatively in Britain and or the six counties between 1980 and 1996 are excluded from making a blood donation; the data source used to justify and base this exclusion which has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 423. To ask the Minister for Health why more than 2,600 persons have been on trolleys in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal since 1 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41683/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 433. To ask the Minister for Health why the home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal were withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41801/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a discretionary medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41802/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction on a new school building project (details supplied) in County Donegal will commence, and will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41280/15]