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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We would observe more than engage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What about Cabot Ireland and the thousands of people who are going to be evicted?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I want to focus on one issue of tax forgoing, which is vulture funds in the State buying up billions of euro of assets in the form of individual mortgages and business loans and putting them in structures which are tax-exempt. The Minister is well aware that the vultures are setting up special purpose vehicles under section 110 which means that they pay no tax on the multi-billion euro...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister obviously does not know what is happening under his nose. Ulster Bank sold a portfolio of more than 2,000 buy-to-lets to Promontoria Scariff. Cabot is administering them. It is appointing a receiver to all of those properties. It is telling them to clear the arrears within 30 days or a fixed asset receiver will be appointed. That means they are taking the asset whether there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This issue highlights the battle with the insurance industry. This is something that should be have been dealt with and should never have had to emerge in a report. That report has been in existence for two and a half years. This is about transparency. We will have the industry representatives before us again. One would swear butter would not melt in their mouths when they are sitting...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, a six-week window. This means that it is unlikely the legislation will be before the committee prior to the summer recess. I am very disappointed with that because I thought we would be dealing with it straight after Easter.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which transparency has been introduced into insurance, pricing motor and business; when the price of business insurance will be readily measurable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18015/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The original report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform focused relentlessly on transparency as a key issue to address in the crisis that we face with many businesses and individuals facing high insurance premiums, yet two and a half years on we hear from individuals, consumers and advocate groups that there is now less transparency in the system not more. A good...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We all hear the anger among small businesses, be they grocers, soft play areas, pubs and retail outlets, at the dramatic increase they face in insurance costs. The committee heard that at first hand. In some cases over a short period premiums have increased by 1,000%. In spite of that, there is no measurement in the State to measure the increase in insurance on small businesses. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I hear what the Minister of State says and I take it at face value but the reality is that we have less transparency now within the system. The blue book and the private motor insurance statistics, PMIS, should have been published in recent years. We should not allow the insurance industry to do what it has done, namely, allow our agencies to take away the little transparency that existed....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to change the lucrative tax arrangements in place in order to disincentivise commercial investors from distorting the market for new housing in Dublin and nationally through the buy-to-rent model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17794/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of fixed assets receivers by vulture funds and State-owned banks to force the sale of buy-to-let properties in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17793/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will make a decision and implement the decision on a change to betting tax in view the ongoing impact on the sector and on independent bookmakers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17795/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Implementation (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase carbon tax; his views on the impact of such an increase on the progressivity of the tax system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17796/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (17 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance when the appeal against the European Commission ruling in a case (details supplied) will be heard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17797/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I echo the words of Deputy John Brady, who has championed this issue for a long time. This matter should have been settled a long time ago. The Workplace Relations Commission has issued a ruling on it and the Dáil passed a motion on it last April through the combined efforts of Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and the other Opposition parties. The right thing needs to be done now....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Come on.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 12 December 2017, the status of the project; when the project will proceed to construction phase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17242/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (16 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 396. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the drug sapropterin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17721/19]