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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: This section deals with the convening of extraordinary general meetings by members on ICAV. Is the Minister in a position to indicate what type of amendments he is considering?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Will it strengthen a shareholder’s right to call an extraordinary general meeting, as getting rid of the requirement to have an annual general meeting is quite a big step?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the change announced in budget 2015 of the reduction in the 41% rate of income tax to 40% and the decrease in the threshold at which the higher rate of tax is paid. [43032/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the decrease in €1,000 in the threshold at which the higher rate of tax is paid if the income tax rates remained unchanged in budget 2015. [43033/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the decrease in the top rate of income tax in budget 2015 if the threshold remained the same. [43034/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2015 (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of or the revenue raised by each of the individual changes to the USC rate in budget 2105, that is the cost of each of the following measures, charging USC on income from €0 to €12,012 @ 1.5%, charging USC on income from €12,013 to €17,576 @ 3.5%, charging USC on income from €17,577 to €70,044 @ 7%,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Allowances (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Ministers and Ministers of State that have availed of the dual abode allowance in 2013 and 2014. [43123/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Water Establishment (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of shares he owns in Irish Water; and the date and details of any purchase or sale of shares by him. [43124/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Water Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to correspondence (details supplied) the way in which the figure of €550m is arrived at. [43284/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the trade arrangements that exist between Ireland and the United States; the tariffs that exist between Ireland and the US in respect of trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43080/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Data (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 238. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications made to set up companies since 1 October 2014, and since 15 October 2014; the number for the year as a whole; and the numbers for each of the past five years. [42907/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the estimates of jobs displacement across the EU as a result of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership; the measures he will introduce to counteract these effects for workers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43081/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has signed a letter supporting the ISDS, investor-state dispute settlement mechanism proposed by the transatlantic trade and investment partnership ; his reasons for doing so; his views on the ISDS mechanism and its implications for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43082/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 241. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the potential impact of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership on the agriculture, environment, employment and workers' rights sectors; the steps he will take to ensure Ireland's interests are protected during the negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43083/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Lands (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures Coillte follows to ensure its lands or leaseholds are sold in an open and competitive process. [42936/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan had a penalty applied on the disadvantaged area payment and the single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42961/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43166/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child care and preschool facility (details supplied) in County Donegal is allocated only €8.30 per hour by the Health Service Executive to pay for a special needs assistant, this being despite the fact that the facility must comply with employment legislation which sets the minimum wage at €8.65 per hour; his plans to increase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Allowances (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 437. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons (details supplied) in County Donegal were not provided an allowance in respect of their medical card application for life assurance; the reason only one allowance was given for one child over 16 years financially dependent on the applicant when there are two children over 16 financially dependent on the applicant; the reason the spouse's...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Remuneration (11 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if in the case of a UK local authority employee who applies for and receives a similar post in a local authority here will be placed at the bottom of the local authority payscale in accordance with the rules for new entrants post 2009 or if the person's previous years of employment will be considered under EU or Irish...