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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Vótáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I oppose Deputy Murphy's amendment for a number of reasons. To respond to Deputy Humphreys, there is no suggestion that we would speak to representatives of any multinational corporations before the Minister for Finance, officials from the Department of Finance, Revenue Commissioners and OECD and academic experts have appeared before the sub-committee. It is proposed to have these witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That the Sub-Committee on Global Taxation may invite, if it sees it as appropriate, and after hearing from the OECD, the Department of Finance, the Revenue Commissioners and the Minister for Finance, and the other named individuals discussed at the Sub-Committee on Global Taxation meeting of 26 June, other witnesses before the committee.In November 2012, in a formal proposal to this...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that the allocation of an additional 500 resource teachers to meet the increase in the percentage of children with special needs who are attending school from September 2013 onwards will result in funding being withdrawn from the overall education budget; if he will confirm that he has no plans to increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to objections raised by staff of Dublin Institute of Technology regarding the provision of Shell funding towards the new visual art degree in Erris, County Mayo, which is being offered by DIT and Mayo County Council [32217/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June, if he will outline the effective tax rate effect for income earners whose tax credits were phased out with a reduction of half the credits between €100,000 and €150,000; three quarters of the credits between €150,000 and €200,000; and abolished over €200,000; based on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June 2013, if he will set out the additional average tax paid by employees in the categories mentioned if the employees were also subject to a new third rate of tax of 48% on income earned in excess of €100,000. [32382/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised if personal and not employee tax credits for high income earners were phased out with a reduction of half the credits between €100,000 and €150,000; three quarters of the credits between €150,000 and €200,000; and abolished over €200,000; the impact that would have on the average tax take...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 26 June 2013, if he will set out the average additional tax take paid by taxpayers earning over €100,000 if tax credits were abolished; and the average additional tax take that would be paid if these taxpayers also incurred a new third rate of tax of 48% on the income earned in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the present state of national monument DG025-029001, DG025-029003, DG025-029006, DG025-029004, DG025-029005,  DG025-029002, and their grounds and access roads at present; if he will ensure that access to these national monuments is upgraded and the vicinity in which they stand is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 232. To ask the Minister for Health when a patient who is under the care of a consultant (details supplied) in County Donegal since November 2012 was informed that their surgery will not be carried out; the reason this is the case, and reassure this patient that they will receive the necessary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32460/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Health when a patient (details supplied) in County Donegal whose case has been regarded as priority may expect to be called for elective hip surgery in view of the fact that the patient is in severe pain; the number of elective hip replacements carried out at this hospital last year and the expected number for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Banking Sector Remuneration (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The taxpayer spent €120,000 on the Mercer report and the public expected that senior bankers would see reductions in salaries. My question was specific, in that it related to base salaries. At AIB and Bank of Ireland, 257 individuals are on remuneration packages of more than €200,000. Some 2,500 are on remuneration packages of more than €100,000. I want the Minister...

Other Questions: Economic Growth Initiatives (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: There has been much talk and one would be forgiven for thinking that Europe is going to come to our rescue with a huge stimulus package. It is being presented that way. The Minister mentioned the MFF, the budget agreed in Europe last week, and while the figures for the billions that will be invested over that seven year period are great, if one peels off the layers one finds that the budget...

Other Questions: Strategic Investment Fund Management (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We have been in record as arguing for the NPRF to be used as a stimulus so I welcome the fact that the Minister is finally moving in this direction. Next month, it will be two years since the Minister announced this legislation. He says he is hopeful it can be enacted by the end of the year. Deputy Michael McGrath raised other issues in respect of governance. We know there is a commitment...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Bank Codes of Conduct (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We are now approaching the mid-point of this Government's term in office. I assume that when the Minister took office he did not expect to be approaching the mid-point with the mortgage crisis getting worse. The latest figures show there is an increase in mortgage arrears. Under the Minister's stewardship, we have seen a doubling of the number of those in mortgage distress. There was also...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Bank Codes of Conduct (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: As the Minister said, the new code of conduct on mortgage arrears came into force yesterday. There is no doubt that the banks are enjoying the fact that the Government and the Central Bank have let them off the leash. In recent months there has been a major spike in the number of people whose mortgages are in distress contacting my constituency offices in Donegal. The distress to which I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Bank Codes of Conduct (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason, at a time of still increasing mortgage arrears, he is allowing banks, through a revised Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears, to deal more aggressively with struggling home owners including by removing the 12 month moratorium, lifting the limit of three contacts per month and supporting the reversal of the Dunne judgment. [32192/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Staff (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Notwithstanding the revelations on the Anglo tapes, I have made clear for a long time that those who were in senior positions in Anglo Irish Bank should not have been in the employ of the State. The individuals in question earned more than the Minister for Finance until February this year, despite having been involved in a bank that cost the State more than €30 billion. We see the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IBRC Staff (2 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he regrets continuing to employ persons (details supplied) in a State owned bank; the actions he took to ensure they were fit to hold these positions that were recently published in the media. [32191/13]