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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (28 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 497. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passports applied for in February 2022 will issue in time to family members (details supplied) travelling in July 2022 representing Ireland abroad in a sporting event; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34282/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of expressions of interest received from 19 February to the closing date of 29 April 2022 for appointment to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal. [34318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 805. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card review will be completed for a person (details supplied); the reason that tax clearance is required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33868/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 860. To ask the Minister for Health if arrangements will be made with Altnagelvin Hospital, County Derry for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to receive radiotherapy who is due to commence radiotherapy in Galway on 30 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34146/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: AIB and EBS have been fined €96 million for overcharging more than 12,000 customers and 93 breaches of regulations. Harm ranged from overcharging and breaching contracts to the repossession of family homes. AIB and EBS have caused serious harm to customers and ruined many lives. To date they have been forced to pay back more than €230 million to affected customers but the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Léiríonn tuarascáil an Ombudsman teip iomlán an Rialtais áiteanna scoileanna a chur ar fáil do pháistí agus do leanaí a bhfuil riachtanais speisialta acu. Tá gníomh éigeandála de dhíth anois le cinntiú go mbeidh áit scoile ag gach páiste sa Stát i mí Mheán Fómhair. The Ombudsman for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. I am surprised by his commentary that there are no plans for emergency legislation. This highlights the fact the members of the Government are not speaking to each other. The Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, is on the record as saying she has spoken to the Attorney General in the context of emergency legislation. We need emergency legislation....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think the Minister answered the question. Maybe it was an issue of timing. The question I was asking was what happens if the NSAI comes back, as we expect it will, and says we need to deal with foundations. There are old Irish sayings about not building on sand. The idea of taxpayers' money going into building a structure on foundations that are at least questionable and are not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the remediation of dwellings damaged by defective concrete blocks Bill 2022 does not provide for the replacement of the foundations of homes that will have to be demolished, given that he has asked the National Standards Authority of Ireland to examine the need for this to be done in their ongoing review; and if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is é an cheist atá os comhair na Dála inniu ná an fhadhb atá ann le míoca agus le pirít. Why has the Minister ensured the remediation of dwellings damaged by defective concrete blocks does not provide for the replacement of foundations of homes that must be demolished, given that the Minister has asked the National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Part of the question I asked related to the costs associated with this. The Minister has triggered a review into deleterious materials in foundations and other materials in the blocks but he authorised the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland to carry out a study of the cost of rebuilding while asking them to exclude the cost of foundations. The Minister has acknowledged a change from the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the commitments made to tackle vacant housing in the Housing for All Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions No. 394 and 395 of 14 June 2022, the number of persons availing of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019 disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, on an individual level given that the PAYE data on employee pension contributions is now reported to the Revenue Commissioners. [33268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions No. 394 and 395 of 14 June 2022, the cost to the Exchequer of tax relief on pension contributions in 2019 disaggregated by salary band in intervals of €10,000, on an individual level given that the PAYE data on employee pension contributions is now reported the Revenue Commissioners. [33269/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the issue of insurance reform, an important matter. This is a timely discussion, two and a half years after the Government launched its Action Plan on Insurance Reform in December 2020. Although insurance often seems like a boring or dry topic, it is crucial to the functioning of a modern economy because it allows business to transfer risk, without...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the witnesses for appearing before an coiste and for the three presentations. I will start with the research and development tax credit, the larger of the three being discussed. All members of the committee recognise the importance of developing innovation, high productivity and a high-wage economy, and the importance of research and development in that regard and in fostering...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The principle of having an enhanced tax credit for small and micro businesses was not an issue for the Commission. It just needed to be targeted. That is a positive step.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That takes me to the next point. Why do we not disentangle them? Why do we not have a separate research and development tax credit using the definitions the Commission is asking us to use in regard to having a targeted, state aid approved support package? We could have two separate applications and a micro business could apply to either, technically. Why do we not do that? You would then...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Absolutely.