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Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Are there arrangements in terms of the amendments?

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: In that respect, I have moved the amendment and I will push it to a vote. It is an amendment to include apartments under the scope of the higher rate of stamp duty. I say to the Minister once again, apartments are also homes.

Financial Resolution 2021 - Financial Resolution: Stamp Duties (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 12: After section 31E, to insert the following new section: "Report on Application of a Stamp Duty Charge on the Purchase of Apartments by Investment Funds 31F. The Minister shall within 14 days from the passing of this Resolution prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the impact of deleting subsection (6)(a) of Section 31E and including residential...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the National Broadband Plan will be rolled out for a premises (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27020/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver permit can be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26858/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 85. 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 as a front-line worker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver theory test will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the test will be taken in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Union (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Ireland has requested under Article 25(3) of the RRF Regulation to redact information relating to Ireland's National Recovery Plan; if so, the nature of such redactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27100/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of circular 38/2020 will be provided (details supplied). [26901/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests to the committee. My first question relates to when premiums are going to reduce. In 2019, Mr. Brennan appeared before this committee, along with colleagues from throughout the industry. They asked us to reduce the cost of claims and to produce legislation, which has since happened. The judges have done their work and reduced the cost of claims for minor injuries,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The guidelines were adopted by the Judicial Council not weeks ago but months ago. They took effect on 24 April but Mr. Brennan is well aware of them. People are being charged by his company for renewal of motor or business insurance and are not getting the reduction, despite Zurich knowing damn well that if there is a claim in that policy over the next 12 months, the cost of paying out on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Euro for euro, will the savings made by Mr. Brennan's company be passed on to the consumer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Without signalling the level to which prices will fall, will Mr. Brennan outline to the committee the average cost of, for example, third-level injury costs, which in 2019 amounted to €295 per policy? Where does he expect that figure to be for the next 12 months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is very much changing the tune after the fact, given that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: On the previous occasion, it was all about the number of minor soft tissue injuries and how that needed to be dealt with. It was dealt with, which went beyond the expectations of Mr. Brennan as CEO-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: It was not 50% but 60%, and the guidelines have been in place for the past month. I have carried out a survey in which I asked people to tell me whether their premiums had decreased, increased or stayed the same. We received more than 1,000 responses from people who have had renewals in the past three weeks since the guidelines came into effect. Is Mr. Brennan surprised that 61% of them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the representatives from Aviva the same questions. When is Aviva likely to pass on the significant reductions? It is pocketing large sums as a result of premiums it has been writing over the past three weeks, knowing damn well that the awards that will be paid out, if they are to be paid out on these contracts, will be significantly reduced. When are motorists and businesses likely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (19 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is Mr. O'Rourke trying to spin me the yarn that most of this is already priced in? Is this really what the insurance industry is trying to say now, that it expected this so it started to reduce premiums last year and this has to be counted into the equation? Is this the tale Mr. O'Rourke is trying to tell?