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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application can be processed for a person (details supplied); if the issue with resubmission links and security questions can be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration for a person (details supplied); if a refund will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Section 12(2) of the British-Irish Agreement applies to Waterways Ireland; if this provision includes lease agreements and encroachment licenses, on foreshore or Waterways Ireland property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44407/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland is a State authority to which Section 13(1)(b) of the Statute of Limitations 1957 would apply. [44408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if negotiations regarding any disposal of assets by Waterways Ireland are subject to full transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland has or would consider issuing a commercial operating licence to operators for developments before they are regularised and legalised; and the checks that are currently in place before issuance. [44410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland has utilised any unauthorised developments for the purpose of boat storage, repair or maintenance in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44411/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The number one issue facing workers and families is the housing crisis. It permeates every facet of Irish life. Young people are left without hope, children are growing up in emergency accommodation, businesses cannot get workers, schools cannot get teachers, and gardaí, nurses, members of our Defence Forces are leaving their profession because they cannot find somewhere to live. This...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have caused the housing crisis and today's budget is further confirmation that they are not the ones to fix it. We needed a budget for renters; instead we got a budget for landlords. A Sinn Féin Government would have introduced a budget that would have got to grips with the housing crisis and built the homes our people so desperately need. Access to...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is this Government has normalised child homelessness and that should never be accepted in this State. Is this the society we want to be? It is not. The two Ministers have been in government, as the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said, for just over three years now. Let us look at their record on housing. Since taking office, average rents have increased by 33%. That means the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is a clear message, if there ever was one, to workers and families that under this Government, in terms of housing, things will not get better. Indeed, they will get worse. Sinn Féin has set out a plan. We said very clearly that what should have been in this budget was the biggest State-supported construction of social, affordable and cost-rental houses in the history of the State,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We need to increase the supply of affordable homes to rent and buy. For many years, Sinn Féin has also called for the introduction of a refundable tax credit to put one month's rent back into renters' pockets and for this to be introduced, crucially, alongside a three-year ban on rent increases. For years, this proposal was criticised time and again by the Government and by these...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: He has decided to put taxpayers' money into the pockets of landlords. You simply could not make this up. In this budget, the Government has provided nearly twice as much to landlords as it has to struggling renters. The Minister knows fine well, because the experts in his Department told him, that the vast majority of these landlords never even thought about leaving the rental market....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance what legislative instruments exist to allow local authorities to introduce a "tourist tax" as a revenue-raising initiative. [43744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures have been implemented to allow for the investigation of properties which may be liable for the vacant home tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43745/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many staff are employed in each local authority to investigate properties which may be liable for the vacant home tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many staff are employed in each local authority to investigate properties which may be liable for the derelict sites levy. [43748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number of sites, per local authority, deemed currently liable for the derelict sites levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of income received by each local authority in 2022 as a result of the derelict sites levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of income collected in each local authority in 2022 as a result of NPPR charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43754/23]