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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the rheumatology service at Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; the commitment to reinstate the service upon completion of the new medical block at the hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients are now having to travel to Sligo General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55103/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown per year for the past 10 years of the amount of State Forestry land sold and being sold by Coillte and its value; the amount of State forestry land removed from forestry for development reasons and its value site sales, wind energy, roads, power lines and so on; the amount of State Forestry land removed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the rheumatology service at Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; the commitment to reinstate the service upon completion of the new medical block at the hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients are now having to travel to Sligo General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55103/12]

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: In the majority of cases it will be smaller farmers who will fall into this category. I do not say it is small farmers exclusively. We can agree on that. A farmer who sells an animal for €100 is currently entitled to €5.20 on top of that under the VAT rules but the Government wants to reduce that to €4.80. It is not a fair tax. Let us be clear. The Government is...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is not agreed if Opposition Members are to be denied time.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Excise (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: This group of financial resolutions deals with VRT, farmers' tax and motor trade tax. I will deal with the VRT and motor trade tax issues first. The reality is that many people depend on their cars to get from A to B. I listened to what the Taoiseach said about the drop in income in terms of revenue. The statistics bear that out. We moved to a CO2 model post-2008 and car manufacturers...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: While Sinn Féin acknowledges that there are public health arguments behind each of these resolutions - the resolution that increases excise duty on alcohol products and the resolution that increases excise duty on tobacco products - we have been here previously. I do not want to rehearse the arguments that were made last year. The motivation of Government in this regard is not the...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: -----that set out an investment strategy to create thousands of jobs. We showed how a €13 billion investment could be funded through the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF, the European Investment Bank, EIB, and the private pension industry and by not cutting the capital budget. Instead, the Government has reduced the capital budget by €500 million. The Taoiseach would be as...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is not in a position to tell low or middle income families that they can manage without €10 a month in child benefit for each child - the figure is higher for subsequent children. I cannot imagine any of the Ministers opposite having to look into the recesses of their kitchen cupboards to try to find enough ingredients to put together a meal for their children, as many...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is important not to kid ourselves. These measures are a drop in the ocean compared to the pain inflicted on ordinary people today. That pain has been inflicted on top of successive budgets introduced by this Government last year and by Fianna Fáil in the years before. That pain has been inflicted on a certain group of low and middle income earners; they have been deliberately...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach said it was morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a person's house. He has sat opposite smirking at the fact he will introduce this same type of tax, asking people to pay it who cannot even pay their mortgages and who are struggling to get by.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair. Those are the words of the Taoiseach. During the 2011 election campaign, the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, promised not to introduce a family home tax on residential homes. He said, "We have to remember that many people have already paid a family home tax on their residential home in the form of stamp duty". Shame on the Taoiseach and Tánaiste...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: The Government wishes to tax people for having a roof over their heads, even if they have contributed already and are continuing to contribute to economic recovery.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Most people’s houses are owned by the banks and most people must pay massive mortgages. For those who bought in the last decade, they are essentially paying dead money in payments on a house that is worth half of what they borrowed. So many young families bought houses because they were encouraged, cajoled and bribed into doing so by politicians, the Government and banks. Many of...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: In recent weeks, people across this State have been gripped by two emotions - hope and fear. They were hoping that the budget the Minister announced today would have made things better, that it would bring jobs and help rebuild our broken economy. They also hoped that it would improve the health and education systems, and that it would ease the burden they have been carrying since 2008. ...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: What about the logged miles?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (4 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the structure within the local authorities which will manage rent supplement; if it will require extra staff and funding for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54245/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (4 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if the review of bankers' remuneration has been completed; if he has received the final report and when he intends to publish smae [53755/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Dec 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer by increasing the universal social charge by 3% on income in excess of €100,000; and what the impact would be on the average effective tax rate of earners between €100,000 and €200,000. [54083/12]