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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to base the rate of payment of the pandemic unemployment payment on 2019 earnings rather than 2018 earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19039/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to base the rate of payment of the pandemic unemployment payment on 2019 earnings rather than 2018 earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19039/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for pandemic unemployment payment re-rate appeals and reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19040/20]

Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure which motion the Minister has read because the Sinn Féin motion does not call for a roadmap. It calls for the reduction of class sizes in line with the European average of 20:1, which she failed to address. She did not use any of her ten minutes to acknowledge that, at primary level, we have the highest class sizes in Europe. Nor did she acknowledge the fact that one in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: This is a significant issue of concern as the Taoiseach is hearing now from Deputies. In the past 24 hours I have spoken two private coach operator providers in my own county of Donegal. There is great anxiety there because they were hoping that there would be some type of rescue plan for them in the July stimulus package. It has not materialised. These are the same companies that have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: That is scandalous. The Taoiseach has made a serious statement. If true, it would amount to illegality. He is doing so because he cannot defend the situation where, on the one hand, he is cutting payments for PUP recipients who are travelling abroad while, at the same time, standing over and defending the payments to himself and the super junior Ministers.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: He made an allegation about the funding of my constituency office.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the Ceann Comhairle to protect me in this Chamber, as a Member of this House representing the people of Donegal. The Taoiseach has made a serious allegation in regard to the funding of my constituency office, suggesting it is funded through illegal sources---

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: He did say it. He said it was funded from America. It would be illegal in this jurisdiction to fund the operation in that way.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: That is a scurrilous allegation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach is making a scurrilous statement because he cannot stand up and defend the indefensible. He and his colleagues in government just voted to stop payments to people in receipt of the PUP who travel outside the country.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: A Cheann Comhairle-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: To be helpful to the Taoiseach-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Do the right thing and annul it.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Workplace Relations Commission (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Workplace Relations Commission received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if so, when they will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18526/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost in 2021 of abolishing the punitive motor tax surcharge by which motor tax paid for periods of three or six months are more expensive, in monthly costs, than the cost of motor tax for a period of 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18777/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the RSA Sláinte agus Tiomáint guideline which states Group 2 licence holders are not permitted to drive with complete loss of vision in one eye applies to HGV licence holders that lost their vision completely in one eye prior to passing their driver test and are current licence holders; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue in 2021 that would be raised by tapering out the personal, PAYE and earned income credit by 2.5% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €140,000 per year resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits in cases in which income is in excess of €140,000 based on the latest...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue in 2021 that would be raised by introducing an additional USC rate of 5% on individual incomes in excess of €140,000 based on the latest individualised income figures available to the Revenue Commissioners. [18756/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost in 2021 of abolishing the local property tax and replacing the funding with central funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18757/20]