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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Driver Test (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a driver test date will be given for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42764/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding is available for a domestic violence support group (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42757/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and position regarding the restoration of full-time disability day services; when these services will resume a five-day week service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40503/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 417. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will commence employment as a Covid-19 swabber with the HSE at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42631/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if DJ music is permitted at weddings in line with the latest level 3 Covid-19 restriction guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42761/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 434. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recommence respite service at Lifford Hospital; the time frame for resumption of this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42758/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 435. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a gynaecological appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42759/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for gynaecological appointments in Letterkenny University Hospital for routine and urgent referrals in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular from. [42760/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative basis and the provision of legislation upon which the decision to refuse a cross-border directive application was made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42762/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Choimisinéir. I have a number of questions on her remarks in her opening statement on non-performing loans, NPLs. We are aware that NPLs have featured quite significantly across the three State-owned banks and have reduced gradually over recent years. At the end of last year, the proportion was just below 5% but unfortunately it has increased since then, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate the Commissioner's comments. The language that she used was about unburdening banks with non-performing loans so they can lend into the real economy. These loans are individuals, people and families. I happened to meet one of these families on my way in here about 20 minutes ago. They are a real family who have lost their home as they face into Christmas and they are part of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate the comments made by the Commissioner. Perhaps she will talk to other parties here and ask them to support my No Consent, No Sale Bill that would prevent the sale of family homes to vultures. I would like to hear her view, as a Commissioner, on the Commission's decision on 25 September to appeal the Apple case. Does she support the stance of the Commission to lodge an apple in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver licence and penalty point history will issue to a person (details supplied) in time for the HSE deadline for student paramedic applicant. [41086/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Force Majeure Leave (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 433. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are plans to expand the force majeure leave scheme to allow parents to care for a child isolating due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41759/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to delays in processing applications in the Probate Office; her plans to increase staff capacity to deal with any backlog in the office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41463/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ophthalmology Services (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 600. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the national roll-out of the Sligo pilot scheme for ophthalmology cases committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41305/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Procedures (8 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 638. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect the results of procedures carried out in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41464/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I want to speak to amendment No. 72 and also to support amendments Nos. 76 and 77. There has been a lot of talk about just transition and some people will ask if it is just a fancy slogan or a buzzword, or if it has any meaning at all. I represent the county of Donegal and what the people of Donegal see in this section is simply more taxes - more taxes to get from A to B and to drive...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: We have had this debate for a number of years now. Others, including professors of economics and the former chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, have added their weight to the debate. The Minister blatantly refuses to do as proposed. One could refer to the existing arrangement as a loophole, but loopholes are not supposed to be designed. The arrangement is deliberately designed....

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 67: In page 45, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: "Report on restoring cap on intangible assets 22.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on restoring the 80 per cent cap on intangible assets onshored between 2015 and 2017 that can be written off against profits at the...