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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 217. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason sole traders are excluded from the ready for customs grant; if an alternative grant is available for sole traders for such costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20799/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 457. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is planned to recommence driving lessons for essential workers who are yet to complete the required driving lessons to allow them to apply for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a trailer licence category was removed from a driver licence in the case of a person; if it will be reinstated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an exchange transport manager CPC IRL-EU certificate will issue for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 518. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposal with regard to the addition at European Council level of the words, by the use of secondary markets, to Ireland's 2018 country specific recommendations was made by Ireland; if not, the way that Ireland voted on the amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20004/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 665. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht faoi aon phlean ag an Roinn faoi láthair maidir le coláistí samhraidh sa Ghaeltacht in 2021; an bhfuil maoiniú curtha i leataobh do mhná agus fir tí mura bhfuil na cúrsaí sin á reáchtáil mar gheall ar Covid-19; an bhfuil an tAire sásta ráthaíocht a chur ar...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 896. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20802/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 2422. To ask the Minister for Health if St. Joseph's Community Hospital, Stranorlar, County Donegal will continue to be used to provide dental treatment to patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 2423. To ask the Minister for Health if residential care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 2424. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add i-ports for children to the long-term illness scheme or otherwise reimburse costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 2425. To ask the Minister for Health the plans and timelines for the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in County Donegal for housebound persons by the National Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20793/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Remote Working (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 2591. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application process is planned for interested pub owners in the recently announced proposal for a pilot scheme to turn rural pubs into remote working hubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20800/21]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an chur i láthair sin ar na Meastacháin. My first question relates to the revenue side. The Minister is familiar with President Biden's tax plan, particularly his support for pillar 2 of the OECD plan, which contains a minimum effective tax rate for OECD countries. While President Biden is advocating that be at 21%, it may fall somewhere...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister stands behind the 12.5% tax rate and we have had resolutions passed in the Dáil across the political divide in support of that rate. The Minister acknowledges that obviously there is a process under way whereby they are looking at a minimum effective corporation tax rate and while President Biden in America is suggesting 21% others may be suggesting something lower or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. My next question relates to the stability programme update, SPU, published last week. Do the revenue forecasts in it include the projected increase from revenue as is scheduled in carbon tax increases, provided for in last year's Finance Bill? Is that captured?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is okay. Do the expenditure forecasts also provide for the cost of maintaining the State pension at 66 years of age out to the year 2025?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but when the ceiling was set did it include a pension age at 66 years or 67? I ask because that would have changed the figures presented in the SPU.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough.