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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I have asked and called year on year to use NAMA's resources to tackle the infrastructure needs of the State and the Government has turned its face against those calls. One would think the Government was elected yesterday or last week. Of course it should be doing that. True to form, the Government is not dealing with the social clause in the NAMA legislation, but is getting NAMA to give...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Who can forget the "every little hurts" advertisements? Far from putting manners on its coalition partners, Labour became more Fine Gael than Fine Gael itself. That was up until the Labour Deputies' own heads were on the block. Lo and behold, their glorious leader, Labour's very own Countess of Grantham, is throwing her weight around like there is no tomorrow. It appears that the Labour...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: This is summed up by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform's glee and joy at the suffering of the people of Greece and of Syriza, which was re-elected into government, and the challenges it faces. I ask the Minister of State to send him a message. When his party gets re-elected in the same numbers Syriza gets, he can start to give lectures about the Left.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: It is beneath the Taoiseach to start heckling again, but if he wants to do so, just do it. I did not open my mouth when the Government members were waxing lyrical.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: We want to deliver a fair recovery, one that invests in Ireland’s future for the long term and for the benefit of all rather than the few. We want to deliver a recovery that ensures that children experience equality of opportunity, be it in their education, their access to supports and services or their career choices as they pass into adulthood. We want to grow an economy that is...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, and that is the €24 million. However, the need for resource teachers and all the other needs in education are not being met. Year after year, child and poverty agencies have highlighted the increased costs for parents to put their children through an education system that is supposed to be universal. The damage this Government has done to the education system is far...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I will wait for the exodus of Fianna Fáil Members. They might be joining the Minister on the plinth. Despite all the promises, rhetoric and spin of the past few weeks, what the Taoiseach and the Ministers presented today is the epitome of the boom-bust politics of the past. The cut to the USC and changes to PRSI will put more than three times more in the pocket of someone earning...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance if and when he will commence the provisions of the remaining sections of the Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseas Regulators Act 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Regulation (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the assessment in a recent Central Bank of Ireland report that Irish rates for lending to businesses have diverged from the Euro area average over the past year, as rates fell in many countries; that business lending is now 1.24% points above the average; his plans to tackle this divergence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35617/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out an impact assessment of the strategic banking corporation on the cost of business lending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35618/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the lower rate. [35797/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the higher rate. [35798/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers exempt from income tax. [35799/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the proposal of a person (details supplied) to set up an investor court to deal with disputes under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35487/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has raised concerns with the European Commission regarding the investor state dispute settlement mechanism proposed under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35488/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hazardous Waste Sites (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from Donegal County Council (details supplied) relating to concerns over the possible existence of containers off the County Donegal coast containing potentially toxic and hazardous material; his plans to investigate these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35270/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that Ireland's agricultural interests will be protected under the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Job Initiatives (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 21 January 2015 regarding the 2011 Killybegs jobs initiative, in which the establishment of a local implementation group in 2012 to enhance project delivery was confirmed, the names of the members of this group; the work which it has undertaken to date; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Job Initiatives (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 21 January 2015 regarding the 2011 jobs initiative in Killybegs in County Donegal in which the establishment of a local implementation group in 2012 to enhance project delivery was confirmed; if he will provide the details of the minutes of each meeting held by the group since its...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (13 Oct 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the number of new Garda Síochána recruits to be allocated to each county for 2015 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35435/15]