Results 41-60 of 35,526 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of ten-year national solidarity bonds, five-year saving certificates, three-year savings bonds and prize bonds in circulation each year since 2015; the total value of year each year; the annual interest repayment for each category of bond each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for allowing less transparency for passively traded exchange traded funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 8 April 2025, of the 500 complaints currently active with the FSPO that were received 7 April 2020 the number that were placed on hold at some stage; the average duration of the hold; the number of the 500 were closed and reopened; the average duration between closing and reopening; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 64 to 66 of 9 April 2025, if he was presented evidence by the Revenue Commissioners that the amendment introduced into the PRSA pension schemes in the Finance Act 2022 was being used in a manner not in keeping with the policy intention; the estimated scale in value terms and in number of people involved; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 64 to 66 of 9 April 2025, to provide further detail on the reason General Anti-Avoidance Regulations can not be used to recoup unpaid tax if people rearranged their affairs for the sole purpose of gaining a tax benefit given that tax avoidance is defined as transactions which are undertaken primarily to claim a tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount if any of the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund are invested In Irish sovereign or quasi sovereign debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21493/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the list of all houses and gardens that are available to the public for viewing as a condition of their exemption from capital acquisitions tax; the list of all property other than houses or gardens that are available to the public for viewing as a condition of their exemption from capital acquisitions tax, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the information and documentation required to apply for an exemption to the capital acquisitions tax on the basis of heritage; the total number of times a capital acquisitions tax on the basis of heritage was withdrawn due to failure to provide reasonable viewing facilities to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 51. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 27 March 2025, the way in which the obligation to maintain taxpayer confidentiality is compatible in the case of heritage based exemptions given requirement for the public to be aware of and able to view the heritage item to avail of the tax exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (30 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline any plans to remove sub minimum wages and any economic impact assessment that has been carried; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21465/25]

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Deputy Cullinane for moving this motion on unnecessary hip surgeries in children. It is not one or two but, frighteningly, we now understand this could be a routine practice. It is staggering to have to stand here in the Dáil and actually say that, but that is potentially what we are looking at. We are talking about children as young as two years of age being put through...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: And questions to the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Why does the Taoiseach have no confidence in his Minister?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is he not up to the job?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Tolls (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 20 March 2025, the number of drivers in each year that were subject to the €4 penalty, the €50 fine and the final €125.50; and the maximum total fine that can be levied for a late payment for a single car journey. [21188/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Tolls (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 20 March 2025, the total value of late payments in each of the years 2021 to 2025. [21192/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 628. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any action will be taken to address the impact that coastal erosion is having on the historic St Naul’s Monastery and graveyard in the Inver area of County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Copyright Infringement (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 686. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of reports of copyright infringements highlighted by a publication (details supplied); the steps his Department is taking to protect Irish authors and their copyrighted material from tech companies using pirated material to train their AI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 1063. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department has, or has access to, data on the number of children with an autism diagnosis who are enrolled in mainstream classes in primary schools; whether her Department has, or has access to, the number of children awaiting an assessment for autism who are enrolled in mainstream classes in primary schools; if she will provide...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 1064. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school children with autism in special schools, special classes and mainstream classes respectively in each of the past five academic years and projected for the coming five years, in tabular form. [21184/25]