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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Travel Area (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views and those of his Department on section 81 of the nationality and borders Bill which is before the British Parliament, in particular subsection (1A) and its compatibility with and implications for the Common Travel Area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Common Travel Area (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the impact that section 81 of the nationality and borders Bill which is before the British Parliament, in particular subsection (1A) would have on carriers and the documents required for Irish citizens travelling to Britain if operable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue on time for a child (details supplied) to travel on a school trip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a risk assessment and respite service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18619/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The section deals with the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS. As we acknowledged on Second Stage, much of the Bill relates to issues that have taken place, such as the extension of some of the supports during Covid. Some of those supports have now expired while others will expire in the coming weeks. A certain number of them will have a slightly longer tail. There will be very few...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: This section provides an exemption from income tax, USC and PRSI for the recognition payment to front-line healthcare workers. We have discussed this matter previously. I believe it was first mooted by the Taoiseach when he was in America last June or July. Commitments were made that it would be enacted before the end of the year or, at one stage, even before the budget. The Minister is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will it be this month or a little after that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously, the criteria have to be agreed, announced and published before payments are made. The Minister has a list with him. Are nurses who were working in GP practices and were involved in vaccinations on it? Are those who worked through voluntary bodies like Cancer Care West on it? Will the Minister provide us the details of the pro ratanature of the payment? How will it be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister have an estimate of this measure's cost?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: On amendments Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, obviously, that is just a change of name. The criteria remain the same, so we have no issue on that. It is a technical amendment. I would like to speak on the wider issues of section 5, if the Chair allows it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Sections 5 to 10, inclusive, deal with the tax warehousing element of the Bill. Obviously, this was a very important provision that allowed for a bit of comfort and space for businesses. We see that, across the sector, about 10% of the eligible debt for warehousing has been warehoused, about €3 billion out of the €30 billion. Different companies responded in different ways in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I asked for clarity in regard to that. Will the Minister clarify that the carbon tax is not hypothecated in law, that there is not a magic pool of money where carbon tax goes into one section, that it goes into the Central Fund and that there is a policy decision to spend that resource on mitigation measures, which not all happen? If the banking levy, which is reduced as a result of the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister questioned my honesty numerous times and put himself on a pedestal in terms of the honest politician and me, the dishonest politician. There is nothing trite about me, a representative, having been elected by the people of Donegal with a substantial mandate, raising the issue of people in my constituency who are facing poverty and increased poverty as a result of the measure the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is honesty.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am representing my-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: On a positive note, I am glad that the Minister for Finance has at least recognised that he said before that he was bringing no measures forward until budget day. I am glad that he has made a U-turn. Maybe the Minister's backbenchers are getting him to be a little bit more in touch with where ordinary people are at. The penny is dropping.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I wish to ask the Minister a number of questions about amendment No. 7. As we know, it relates to the financial resolution that was passed and that is just now being put into statutory law to ensure that it does not lapse after the 90-day period, or whatever the number of days a financial resolution can last is. I am conscious that none of us can predict where petrol and diesel prices will...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I cannot wait to take up that offer.