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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister knows this case well because they have been in correspondence with him. He knows there is a vessel that has always been going in and out of Magheraroarty. He knows it now holds a UK licence and that the infrastructure it relies on is in Magheraroarty, the sheds and all the rest. He knows that the crew who are on that vessel are also from that area around Magheraroarty, and he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first-year and full-year cost of removing residential stamp duty with respect to the purchase of residential property by first time buyers for property purchase values of €500,000 or less. [18668/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of the help to buy scheme in 2023, 2024 and 2025, respectively. [18671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the allocation in the base as per Budget 2024 for the help to buy scheme in each of the years 2025, 2026 and 2027. [18672/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue saved were the loan to value ratio under the help to buy scheme increased to 85%. [18673/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue saved were the maximum amount of relief under the help to buy scheme reduced to €25,000 and the loan to value ratio increased to 85 %. [18674/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue saved were the maximum amount of relief under the help to buy scheme reduced to €20,000 and the loan to value ratio increased to 85 %. [18675/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue saved were the maximum amount of relief under the help to buy scheme reduced to €15,000 and the loan to value ratio increased to 85%. [18676/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue saved were the maximum amount of relief under the help to buy scheme reduced to €10,000 and the loan to value ratio increased to 85%. [18677/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Business Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider targeted supports to businesses experiencing increased costs through changes, including rebates, under employers PRSI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15233/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 12 December 2023, the estimated revenue that will be raised in each of the years 2024 to 2030 by the proposed increases in all classes of PRSI, disaggregated by PRSI class, employer, employee and self-employed, in a scenario (details supplied), in tabular form. [18667/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when a HSE report on the death of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be completed; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to address the lack of dedicated support for mental health in the Donegal town area of County Donegal, and that people are having to travel over 50 miles to Letterkenny for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18577/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 320. To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place for residents of a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal, after news emerged that the facility was to close for two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18578/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 321. To ask the Minister for Health when the new Ballyshannon Community Hospital in County Donegal will become fully operational; the reason the hospital is not currently operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18579/24]

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: There are grouped amendments. The one Deputy Ó Ríordáin referenced was amendment No. 82.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Yes but you also referenced amendment No. 82 in terms of the prohibition of certain hours.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure exactly where the Deputy is at in terms of advertising for community groups and so on. We now know that the definition of advertisement is not paid advertisement but that a social media post would also be deemed as advertisement. My view is that we should not be having commercial advertising in terms of gambling. I agree with the Deputy on that. It should be curtailed. That...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The charity or philanthropic body would be delighted to get €10,000 but under the legislation, one third of it has to go to the charity, which is about €13,500. There is a problem with that part of the legislation.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: These amendments are grouped so I am trying to look at the impact of all of them. Let us look at amendment No. 65. I am doing this on the hoof so apologies. Amendment No. 65 seeks to delete "game, betting activity or lottery" and substitute "game or lottery". That is being proposed for the purposes that the Minister of State has just outlined. Why would we want charities involved in...