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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will implement to provide support to businesses in County Donegal affected by public health measures announced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler disaggregated by the number of weeks since they were first submitted with intervals of one week. [61089/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which remain unresolved disaggregated by the number of months since they were first submitted with intervals of one month. [61090/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a teaching pension decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60901/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uasal Deering chuig an gcoiste. We are used to Mr. Deering being a guest of our committee, but today he is with a different hat on, and I look forward to working with him in that new capacity. I take this opportunity to thank him for the engagement we have had during his role as the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, particularly in the passage of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I am signalling an area at which we would like Mr. Deering to look. I welcome his comments that he will take that matter under consideration. It also seems strange to me that public bodies go to great lengths to gather data. They get those data, collate them, clean them and prepare them in a publishable format, but often they do not maximise this by bringing all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I take Mr. Deering's point about when we are dealing with systems that speak to each other and information management. It can be a big project. I also know from the commentary of those behindkildarestreet.comthat they are not doing it at a huge cost. There are fundraising efforts and all of the rest of it. The Oireachtas website has improved in the last period, but it would be interesting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Forget about any individual case. Hypothetically speaking, let us say there is communication by text message - which has been around for many years - between a Minister and a fracking company that is lobbying about a licence to frack. That is an official document of the Department and it should be passed on. All Ministers are aware of that. The problem is that we have FOI requests going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am finished, thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on the sports capital programme application made by a club (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appointment for a GNIB card can be made for a person (details supplied) who will be arriving in Ireland in January 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60717/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 137. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a procedure in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60615/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for colonoscopy procedures in Letterkenny University Hospital, for routine and urgent referrals in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60616/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests and thank them for the excellent resource that is available to the committee as we examine the budget and our forward trajectory. I will ask a couple of questions in the time permitted. Regarding the Government's forecast deficit of 5.9% of GNI* in 2021, the council writes: "The balance could ultimately be more favourable than forecast in Budget 2022, with possible...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The report raises an issue relating to the forecasting of income tax receipts, given the wage growth projected in budget 2022. What concerns does the council have? I believe it mentioned that the Government's suggestion that income tax receipts would follow main wage growth was implausible. That is obvious without policy changes and the Government is not indicating there will be policy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Regarding an issue that we have been dealing with for some time, that being, the standstill costs, I note IFAC's work and that the Department is getting closer to the council. Figure 2.8 on page 54 of the report represents the council's standstill estimates for 2023 to 2026. The amount is €3.2 billion, which is approximately double the €1.65 billion allocated for these costs...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Dr. Casey. We got an insight into the spat between the Tánaiste and IFAC. He was hitting out at IFAC and saying that it was not able to predict the Government running a surplus and the council was hitting back, at least internally, and saying that this was a Government that could not predict Christmas and was holding onto the idea that the council was unable to predict the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that; it is helpful. My final question relates to corporation tax. Currently the budget is structured and the medium-term is structured on the basis that the changes at OECD level vis-à-vispillars 1 and 2 will mean a financial hit to the State of about €2 billion. We have been trying to pursue this with the Ministers for quite some time now, since the deal was...