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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to facilitate an offer of employment with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30085/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (2 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driving licence may be expected to be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Seirbhísí Iompair (2 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil plean ag a Roinn chun cúiteamh a chur ar fáil do chuideachtaí bus sa Ghaeltacht atá ag fulaingt mar gheall ar an gcinneadh na coláistí Gaeltachta a chur ar ceal i mbliana; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [30084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to review of a jobseeker’s allowance payment for a person (details supplied); if they will receive back payment to the date when they reapplied for the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30083/21]

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank all the Deputies who spoke in tonight's debate on this legislation and all those who had kind words for myself and my party's campaign on insurance costs. There was reference earlier to the Government trying to steal my homework. I do not give a damn which Minister takes any of the work that I have done and runs with it. They can have it all, they can have this Bill, the dual...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputies Conway-Walsh, Tully, Ó Laoghaire, Mitchell and Stanley. I am glad that I can introduce the Bill on Second Stage to the House. For far too long, Deputies will have heard me talk about how consumers have been ripped off by the insurance industry, which has put its customers at the bottom of the list...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (1 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 255. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 311 and 312 of 18 May 2021, the amount of IREF dividend withholding tax deducted for 2017, 2018 and 2019 in gross terms and in net terms after refunds in instances in which a person is entitled to receive a distribution without the deduction of DWT on account of a double taxation agreement. [29147/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (1 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 311 and 312 of 18 May 2021, the amount of IREF dividend withholding tax deducted for 2019 that was and was not attributable, respectively, to provisions under Finance Act 2017 that ended the exclusion from the IREF DWT of the distribution of capital gains on the disposal of assets which had been held for more than...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (1 Jun 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he or the Minister for State with responsibility for financial services, credit unions and insurance have held with insurers and underwriters since 1 June 2020 regarding professional indemnity insurance for construction professions and construction-related professions with particular reference to fire safety concerns and the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Athchóiriú Cuimsitheach Buiséid), 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Inclusive Budget Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State talked about scrutiny of this legislation and he will be well aware that the next step in the legislative process is pre-legislative scrutiny. If he had responded to my contribution as opposed to just reading the script, he would have heard me say that the next step would allow us to really scrutinise the implications of the recommendation of the Convention on the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Athchóiriú Cuimsitheach Buiséid), 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Inclusive Budget Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille don Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is seven years since this legislation was first introduced in the Dáil on 16 April 2014. That is reflected in its Title, "Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Inclusive Budget Reform) Bill 2014". Since the Bill was introduced, we have had five amendments to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, my party leader, Deputy McDonald, asked the Taoiseach to clarify the future of the pandemic unemployment supports and stated that for as long as the public health emergency prevents people from going to work, the supports they rely on should be retained in full for the sectors affected. No clarity was provided by the Taoiseach but last night, according to media reports, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The new personal injuries guidelines have been in effect now for over a month. Sinn Féin supported the Judicial Council Act and these new guidelines for one simple reason, which is that they would bring greater certainty to the level of personal injury awards, reducing the cost of claims, and by doing so should reduce the cost of insurance for customers. This is only going to happen...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. We have done more than just produce a paper on this but have produced legislation. I look forward to the Tánaiste's views on this and we will have an opportunity to discuss and debate this on Second Stage shortly. The key thing for me is if this sort of oversight is brought in, it says very clearly to the insurance industry that it has to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council definitely did not pull its punches in its recent assessment of the Government's projections and stability programme update. The report includes a reference to projections being "poorly founded", and uses language such as "piecemeal", "not realistic", "not credible" and "not ... useful". In fairness to the Minister, he did not pull his punches either,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I note Mr. Barnes has said this issue needs to be addressed. This is not the first time IFAC has called out this issue. It called it out last year and the year before but nothing has changed. Many members of this committee and the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach have called also out the unrealistic projections. The SPU is a wee bit meaningless, to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: IFAC mentioned the significant risk that exists in terms of corporation tax receipts. Some 56% of all corporation tax receipts come from just ten corporate groups. The SPU predicts that there will be a reduction of €2 billion in corporation tax receipts due to the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process, in particular Pillar I. Mr. Barnes will note that there is real...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The projections are based on a 12.5% corporation tax rate. Does Mr. Barnes believe that is credible in the medium term given the BEPS process and where that is moving in terms of a minimum effective tax rate?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The IFAC report states that "current projections suggest that achieving a balanced budget by 2025 would leave no room to implement new policy measures without increasing taxes or reducing spending in other areas." IFAC has commented elsewhere in its assessment that the programme for Government made spending commitments in core areas such as health and housing, which are required. At the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: On debt sustainability, does Mr. Barnes accept that the fiscal and monetary environment has changed, with many arguing for debt sustainability to be measured with respect to debt servicing costs rather than the crude measurement of debt to GDP ratios? Does he accept the old model of measuring what the State can or cannot afford to do has changed and this will change the approach of IFAC in...