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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (22 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22239/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government states the Government will introduce a new model of affordable rental accommodation to provide more housing solutions for those on low incomes. Despite his lofty rhetoric, the Taoiseach has dragged his heels on the cost rental model. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government now has a new pet project, which he calls "co-living", which he presents...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this. The co-living concept has been described by Threshold as 21st-century bedsits with a glossy makeover. Will the Taoiseach heed its advice? Is he even listening to me?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, I have been addressing the Taoiseach but he has been continuously in conversation with the Tánaiste during this period.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I know he has no interest in this issue but the people whom he is telling should be excited are very worried about this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The rent is to be €1,300 for 42 people to share a kitchen. Is it not time to heed the advice of Threshold, abandon the plan and deliver on what the Government committed to, which is an affordable cost rental model?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When were the vultures on the floor?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When was there a demand to give tax incentives to the vultures? Never.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is precisely because of the actions of Cabot Financial Ireland that people fear their loans being sold to vultures. Does the Taoiseach stand over this practice or does he now agree with Sinn Féin that it is time to clip the wings of the vultures?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is reviewing the tax treatment because of an amendment that I tabled to last year's Finance Bill, but there should never have been a tax incentive for vulture funds, which bought portfolios worth billions of euro and have not had to pay a penny of tax on the incomes they have received or the uplift in property prices or any capital gains tax. The Taoiseach does not need the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Taoiseach lift the phone to the State-owned banks, which are about to sell more family loans to these vultures? These families will be thrown to the wolves again. Alternatively, will the Government do what it has done consistently and sit on its hands and bow down to big business, big money and the vultures and always take their side?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Over recent years, banks have been selling off loans, including family homes and buy-to-lets, to vulture funds at knock-down prices. To enable these funds to do their thing, the Government has designed a tax system that incentivises the funds to buy even more loans, which the banks are more than happy to offload despite the dire consequences for the borrowers. Many vulture funds are now...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application for reconciliation fund grant aid has been received from an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal; if so, when a decision on same will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21351/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from tapering the personal, PAYE and earned income credits by 1.43% per €1,000 on an individual income between €100,000 and €170,000 per year, resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €170,000, based on the latest individualised income figures available to the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from 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 when income is in excess of €140,000, based on the latest individualised income figures available to the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from tapering out the personal, PAYE and earned income credit by 2% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €150,000 per year, resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €150,000, based on the latest individualised income figures available to the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from tapering out the personal, PAYE and earned income credit by 5% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €120,000 per year, resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €120,000, based on the latest individualised income figures available to the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from tapering out the personal, PAYE and earned income credit by 5% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €120,000 per year resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €120,000 in addition to a USC rate of 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% and 7%, respectively, in excess of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from 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 when income is in excess of €140,000 in addition to a USC rate of 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% and 7%, respectively, in excess...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from tapering out the personal, PAYE and earned income credit by 2% per €1,000 on individual income between €100,000 and €150,000 per year resulting in no entitlement to these tax credits when income is in excess of €150,000 in addition to a USC rate of 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% and 7%, respectively, in excess of...