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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I should mention that we have only three minutes left. We need to adjourn at 6.30 p.m. and will resume at 7.30 p.m.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: We need to be fair to everyone.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: -----we will adjourn at 6.30 p.m. The Minister may start if he wishes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Lost in translation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I find this an interesting debate. Mind you, it is not the first time I have heard it. It has been a commonly debated issue in the House for as long as I have been around, and that is not a short time. I will first address the whole question of multinational corporations. I come from constituency in which many multinational corporations have invested and in which they provide tens of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I have a query on a matter that has come to my attention. There was a situation in Athenry a couple of years ago where an application was made, and it took a long time to process it. An application was made in Denmark at the same time and not only was the first one granted in Denmark but a second one was granted there before one application could be processed here. It is an interesting...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: As we look back and ask ourselves the quite legitimate questions Deputy Boyd Barrett has raised, we may come up with a different answer to the raison d'êtreused at the time, that is, that investment companies had to be invited into the State in order to generate movement in the banking sector. There was nobody to whom people could apply to borrow. There was no money in the system. The...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Hold on a second-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, Deputy, but there is no provision for interaction between the members of the committee in an argumentative way when they have already discussed the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is going to bring it back again and is the section agreed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: We have dealt with that a long time ago. I ask the Deputies not to intervene anymore. Is it agreed that section 5 stand part of the Bill?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: There are no amendments to section 9.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Not at all?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: It is not quite 6.30 p.m. yet, but we have only two minutes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: Just to be sure to be sure-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his objectives and targets in respect of public authority and affordable housing with particular reference to ensuring that families currently renting can have a mechanism whereby they can purchase a home without having to accumulate a deposit which is an impossibility given the cost of renting; if he will consider setting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which precise housing targets can be or are being met in each local authority by county; the degree to which progress is being made towards meeting the needs of those on local authority housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55074/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 128. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her long-term ambitions to develop the various portfolios under her aegis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Strategies (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 141. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she anticipates progress towards achieving her Departmental mission objectives in respect of each heading; the extent to which she can use ongoing monitoring to reflect progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she can assist the tourism sector in the short to medium-term given the continued existence of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55438/21]