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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Just in case Mr. Cody had any thoughts of getting out of answering them, I will move on to the questions about IREFs. I have a question about the amount of withholding tax being paid by IREFs in recent years. The taxable amount has increased. If one looks at just the two most recent years for which there are reports, the amount involved went from €369 million to €621 million...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on. The number of those paying the non-domiciled levy has dropped to fewer than ten. The Revenue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am getting it from the Revenue website. In 2018, there were fewer than ten, in 2019 there were 11, in 2020 there were fewer than ten.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They are still small.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Revenue won a large, long-running court case recently regarding Louis Fitzgerald; it took seven years to get €400,000 of a domicile levy. Does Revenue have to pay the legal costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yet the matter appeared in the media because it was a High Court case; it was an open court. Is that not correct? I am not asking Mr. Cody to explain the case. In instances like that, where Revenue has pursued an individual - I am entitled to say it because it is public knowledge in relation to this-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The individual in this case argued with Revenue for seven years. Revenue pursued them and won both cases in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Some €400,000 will be paid in that levy. Will Mr. Cody explain if the legal costs that would apply? I assume Revenue built up quite a significant amount of legal costs in that case. I commend Revenue; it is important to pursue these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If they mess about, the big stick comes out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is a very big stick, 10% since 2010.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, absolutely.

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Cullinane as ucht an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála anocht. I had to double-check these figures, but last month, 1,108 patients at Letterkenny University Hospital, LUH, languished on hospital trolleys without beds. That is a disgrace. It is the third most overcrowded hospital in the State, and the situation is getting worse by the week....

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, Hear.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on progress made on the action plan for insurance reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62113/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Protection (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an overview of legislative or consumer protection code provisions with respect to chargebacks, authorised push payment fraud and fraud regarding card payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61722/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 253. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a person (details supplied) is taxed as a single person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for SNA, bus escort and DES supports for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61772/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has an entitlement to any cost-of-living payments announced in budget 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61776/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an approved payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62222/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why supporting documents were not accepted as evidence by SUSI for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 586. To ask the Minister for Health if the 12.5% pay increase for fourth-year student nurses completing their 36-week internship will be in place for nursing interns starting placement in January 2023. [61916/22]