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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a procedural agreement that exists between lenders and approved housing bodies in respect of the mortgage to rent scheme in which cases are exited from the scheme and subsequently not offered to the approved housing body panel for consideration without at least a 15% reduction on the open market value...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the €20 million fund announced (details supplied) was spent; if any of the fund remains; through which local authorities was it drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40954/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of altering the better homes scheme so as to reimburse the contractor rather than the household which had the work done, thereby assisting those on low incomes who have a lack of cash flow. [40963/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Haulage Industry (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts made to date in opposing the imposition on the haulage industry of the lorry road user levy introduced in the Six Counties in 2014; the continued action he is taking to oppose the application of the charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Improvement Scheme Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of restoring funding to local authorities under the local improvement scheme for community involvement schemes for non-local authority roads. [40960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Funding (19 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of increasing funding for the rural transport programme by 15%, and of expanding the service to areas currently neglected, or under-serviced, by ensuring at least once-daily services are in operation in all rural areas. [40961/15]

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to voice my support and that of my party for this amendment. I will take up where Deputy Ó Cuív left off. This does not just undermine the democratic rights of islanders. What has happened for many years is unconstitutional. This is not the first time I have said this in this House. Will the Minister of State liaise with the Attorney General to see if the practices...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I have heard many arguments or counter arguments from Ministers and that is one of the weakest I have heard in a long time. Regardless of the Government's intention, the feeling among the island communities is that they are being treated as second-class citizens. Can the Minister of State respond to the points I have made, which I have made on a number of occasions here, about the postal...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: There have been thousands of evictions. As I said to the Minister, a total of 1,088 orders were granted in the first nine months of this year, and the number is going to increase. Let us be clear about it: this figure is going to increase before the end of the year. The Minister is probably the only person in the House who believes that voluntary surrenders are indeed voluntary....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for additional measures to tackle the ongoing mortgage crisis and the repossession crisis, including through legislative and policy changes. [40616/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I object in the strongest possible terms to the decision to rule out of order a number of questions my colleagues and I had tabled to the Minister. It makes a farce of the House that elected Members are being prevented from asking him questions related to the ongoing IBRC investigation, including the role played by the Department and when the Minister became aware of the difficulties. He...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Arrears (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure if the Minister is aware of this, but the crisis has not gone away. In the dying months of the Government's term of office, 98,137 people are in mortgage arrears. Croke Park could not hold the principal of all of the households where the mortgage on the family home is in arrears. Reports indicate that 4,440 requests for repossession were made to the Courts Service in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Central Bank of Ireland’s investigation into tracker mortgage infringements by banks; the number of banks being investigated, and where issues have been found; and when the investigation will be completed. [40344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to exempt a complex (details supplied) and other residential complexes, that are unsafe to live in, from the local property tax. [40342/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Regulation (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to engage with the credit union movement before the commencement of the remaining element of the 2012 Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseers Regulators Act. [40340/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of banks that have decreased their standard variable interest rates in 2015; the size of these changes; and his plans to legislate to allow the Central Bank of Ireland to cap these rates. [40343/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties that have been successfully purchased by local authorities through the local authority mortgage-to-rent scheme, by local authority, in tabular form. [40848/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data (18 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties which have been successfully purchased through the mortgage-to-rent scheme, ABH and LAMTRs, since 1 July 2015, by county, in tabular form. [40849/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This section relates to the increased film credit threshold. The Minister is well aware that Sinn Féin welcomed the changes made last year in moving from film tax relief on investments by individuals to tax relief for production companies. Is any increase in the level of film production expected as a result of the amendments made in this year's Finance Bill and has any cost-benefit...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The change was made only last year. I am on the record calling for a review of many of the tax reliefs on an annual basis, although some of them do not seem to get the same attention. There is a 40% increase in the eligible limit for production companies, from €50 million to €70 million. The Minister mentioned that the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht was...