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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a hip operation with Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3177/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists (22 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12, for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3178/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (22 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received correspondence from the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network in which the collective has formally requested a meeting with him in order to discuss future funding; his views on such a meeting with the NCCWN; if he will provide an indication as to when he plans to meet the collective in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that, because I have another commitment. The Department officials referred to the annual growth survey. Can the officials explain why GDP growth is ahead outside the eurozone countries? Why is there greater growth outside the eurozone by comparison with the eurozone? We have the figures. Is this the trend we have been seeing in recent times?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Yes - between the euro area and the rest of the EU.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: One of the Commission's proposals is what is termed an integrated approach. It is a more aggressive approach to tax evasion. Is the Department's position still that there is nothing to see here in respect of the Commission's investigation into the activities of a multinational company here? Has the Department formalised an approach on whether it will co-operate with the European Parliament...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Department expect an outcome of "nothing to see here"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Department of Finance co-operate with the European Parliament investigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: The Commission refers to growth-friendly fiscal consolidation. We hear the term time and again. During the budget, the Minister for Finance and other senior Ministers referred to how reducing the tax rate at the highest level would create so many jobs over so many years. Is it the case that an investment or social transfer of equal value would create the same amount of jobs? Has any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: That translates into what I have referenced in respect of the statement on budget day to the effect that reduction of the top rate of tax would create X jobs over X years. If an investment or social transfer of equal value were to take place, would it have the same impact in terms of job creation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Given the time constraints, we will not deal too much with that. Reference was made to the alert mechanism. One of the EU budgetary rules is the expenditure benchmark, something the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has raised several times, as have I. This limits new spending, including tax cuts, to the rate of growth. Can the Department officials set out the legal basis of this rule? How...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Is it binding in nature? Is it one of these rules that are somewhat fluffy around the edges? What if we breach it? I realise things can change in terms of revenues and growth rates and so on. I expect the Department's information was correct late last year when it produced a figure of €400 million. What if the Government were to surpass that in terms of expenditure or tax cuts?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Regarding the investment plan, when we are dealing with the excessive deficit procedure we cannot breach those targets but we can now because the European Commission has just decided to change the rules on investment. Is that correct? If we couple this with investment from Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's plan on the use of state resources, it will not be accounted for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: If we consider the 3% deficit rule, is it correct that at this point in time EUROSTAT is the adjudicator in regard to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: However, the Commission is now saying we should not worry about what EUROSTAT says and that if we use some of this money that takes us above the 3% deficit rule it will not account for it. EUROSTAT is no longer the final adjudicator in this regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Given the restrictions on it, if this money ever comes on line, and we know it has to be leveraged 15 times, will Ireland be in a position to use this money and not have it calculated by EUROSTAT as expenditure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I ask Mr. McCarthy for his best guess. In his contribution Mr. McCarthy raised the alarm that there are rules, that it is not simply a case that this money is coming on board and we can-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Annual Growth Survey 2015, Alert Mechanism Report 2015 and An Investment Plan for Europe: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. McCarthy might give us his best guess at this point in time, bearing in mind that things can change. It is his job to look to see where we will be in the future, and the Department has got very good at doing that. I ask for Mr. McCarthy's best guess. Are we narrowly inside or outside in that regard? Do we have further to go or does he believe we will be okay?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: There should not be pre-conditions.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (21 Jan 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of goods destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners, Customs and Excise in the each of the past five years. [2874/15]