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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., which are a matter for the Minister. Nevertheless, we are 26 working days from a de factono-deal Brexit. Foodstuffs that fall outside any recognised regulatory regime will come into Northern Ireland. We are all agreed that nothing will be stopped at the Border and that the only place goods can be checked is when they land in Northern Ireland. In the case of foodstuffs and drugs, both...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and I know the Minister of State is not trying to play with words. When I say "minor sanction" I am talking about a minor finding, because there can be a finding where the Medical Council of Ireland says a person has committed gross misconduct and has been negligent to the point that he or she is believed to have endangered the lives of his or her patients. That is the kind of finding...

Implications of Brexit for Irish Ports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Regardless of the result of Brexit, Ireland's economy is going to be damaged. We have to respond. The outline of the UK Government white paper does not suggest a particularly soft Brexit. Under the proposals, the UK would still leave the customs union. There would still be different tariffs on goods for the UK and Ireland. There could be different regulation for many of those goods. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (18 Apr 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a short review of the process through which the land for the new site of a school (details supplied) was selected will be conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: I seek clarification on section 28(1)(b), which inserts, "Where a person disposes of land or buildings to which this section applies during the period beginning 4 years after the date they were acquired and ending 7 years after that date, any gain on the disposal of such land or buildings shall not be a chargeable gain." Is it the case, therefore, that for 2018, if a person bought land or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to use the opportunity to raise the issue of accidental landlords. I appreciate it is tangential to the amendment, but deals with the taxation of landlords. For several years I have tabled amendments to try to create an exemption for accidental landlords to stop them from being double taxed. This year I want to raise it and have a short conversation on it on Committee Stage in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Verhofstadt for accepting the invitation to attend and for his steadfast defence of Ireland's and Northern Ireland's interests in the Brexit negotiations. It is very much appreciated. I would like to ask him about the customs union. I met recently with members of the British Government in London. They are resolute that they are leaving the customs union and were pretty clear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Verhofstadt for accepting the invitation to attend and for his steadfast defence of Ireland's and Northern Ireland's interests in the Brexit negotiations. It is very much appreciated. I would like to ask him about the customs union. I met recently with members of the British Government in London. They are resolute that they are leaving the customs union and were pretty clear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Special Meeting of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs meeting with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence and the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP, European Parliament Brexit Co-ordinator (21 Sep 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Verhofstadt for accepting the invitation to attend and for his steadfast defence of Ireland's and Northern Ireland's interests in the Brexit negotiations. It is very much appreciated. I would like to ask him about the customs union. I met recently with members of the British Government in London. They are resolute that they are leaving the customs union and were pretty clear...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Issues (12 Jul 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: 379. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has investigated the impact of Brexit on the use of the United Kingdom as a land-bridge for goods to other markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33294/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the question. 4 o’clock We do not know how much crowding out is happening, but there is a bunch of things we do know. We know that the profits per square metre or per acre of development land for commercial property in Cork and Dublin vastly exceed the profits to be made from residential. We know that some of this is being driven by a tax-free status that has been given to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (19 Jan 2017)

Stephen Donnelly: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a vacant land levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2399/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Dec 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an acquisition of land for a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38351/16]

Finance Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: Perhaps land was a bad example, but for virtually everything else people pay capital gains tax. The international investors who came in here and bought great bargains will be able to walk out of the country without paying any capital gains tax and it is wrong. Other countries do not do this. It has led to a property bubble. I agree with Deputy Boyd Barrett. The opportunity was to move...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: ...through better technology, better education and women moving from unpaid to paid work, has gone into higher mortgages. They are not living in bigger houses; they are the same houses. The same has happened in Ireland. What the Minister is proposing will make it worse. The first few first-time buyers may get some relief from this scheme. The rest will not because it will be priced in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: ...would not be the case. My point was that if one tries to increase the number of houses being built, which is the equilibrium between supply and demand in any given area, by moving supply through rezoning land, site value taxes and other supply side measures, the supply will increase but, critically, at the same time, the average price of a house will reduce, which is important. While I...

Finance Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: ...bubble even worse, leading to a knock-on deterioration in the housing crisis. I will go into more detail on each of these points, but, before I do, let us recall how little tax vulture funds pay in Ireland. In the past few years they have spent about €40 billion in buying loans from NAMA, IBRC and the private banks. Based on numerous filed accounts by vulture funds, they...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Agencies (7 Jul 2016)

Stephen Donnelly: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his oversight of the tree felling and land clearance Irish Rail conducts in maintaining rail lines and infrastructure; the chemical agents it uses in this process; the potential environmental impact of this felling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20316/16]

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: ...is two and a half times that of Spain. In other words, no other country is facing this level of mortgage arrears, and that is because other countries have acted to address the issue. In Ireland, we simply have not seen enough action by Government. My colleague, Deputy Thomas Pringle, noted that the Technical Group first tabled a Private Members' motion on this issue in May 2011....

Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions: Motion [Private Members] (28 Apr 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: I move:That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that mortgage arrears in Ireland, at 156,352 mortgages as of December 2014, are significantly higher than in comparable countries; — the on-going suffering and social cost for those affected by arrears and repossession; and — the socioeconomic cost for the nation of mortgage arrears and repossessions; acknowledges...