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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Has any European Finance Minister made the point to the Minister that if the State loses the case, his or her country will make a claim for some of the €14 billion the European Commission believes should have been paid to the State for many years?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (21 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: But the Minister does not agree with the statement the Commission made. It also told us that it was our money and that it should have been paid to us. We are taking it to court over it.

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, agus molaim an rún mímhuiníne seo san Aire Slainte, an Teachta Simon Harris. While this motion of no confidence is in the Minister for Health, what is really at the core of the motion is our sick and our vulnerable people, our children and elderly, the patients who lie daily on hospital trolleys, those who wait in pain agonising...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Let us be clear and let us not take away from the junior Minister, Deputy Marcella Corcorcoran-Kennedy and Senator Frances Black, who were the real champions in relation to the Public Health Alcohol Bill. Let us also be clear that the Minister is far from implementing Sláintecare and is failing dramatically in that regard. I also listened to the outbursts from the Tánaiste...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----and if the Tánaiste thinks that is helpful he needs to have a reality check, take a good look at himself, at what he has said and at how it has not assisted in the project. He knows the issues and has put them on the record before. I could say a lot more on this but I will not. The reality is that we have a Minister who is completely out of his depth-----

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ----- and a Minister who was asleep at the wheel in relation to the national children's hospital, a Minister who misled the Dáil, misled the public and who is letting down patients on a daily basis. We have a Minister who allowed the budget to go through this House, despite the fact that he knew there were hundreds of millions of euro of an overspend on the biggest capital project in...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: You brought the IMF here. What are you on about?

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: No, we definitely did not.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the CSO acquire data on the price of motor insurance; and if staff working for the office identify themselves as a representatives of the CSO when requesting such data from a company. [8521/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that a person (details supplied) has supplied sufficient evidence to show that they reside in County Derry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8734/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that a person (details supplied) is resident in County Derry; the reason the person was issued a compromise release term to release a seized vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8735/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request that insurers agree commitments to reduce prices in line with reforms introduced using a template (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the additional costs in terms of inflation and other costs that will be incurred as a result of delays to infrastructure projects in view of the overrun in the cost of the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8769/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test Fees (20 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost per year of removing the fee for the national car test excluding retests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8757/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 4 October 2018, if there have been changes in the regulatory status of the company; if the Central Bank has responded to correspondence indicating that it will regulate this type of lending activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7736/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Remit (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if local authorities are classified as financial service providers for the purposes of complaints to the Financial Services and Pension Ombudsman in view of their role in administering and providing mortgages through the Rebuilding Ireland mortgage scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7740/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on ensuring that flood insurance is available at a reasonable price to householders; the flood protection plans in place to ensure a location (details supplied) will be revived from the areas of high risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7803/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each reduction of €2,500 until a threshold of €100,000 in the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8139/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each increase of €5,000 in the maximum reliefs allowed under the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8261/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (19 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated extra revenue that would be expected to accrue for each reduction of 1% (details supplied) in the aggregate of specified reliefs of adjusted income allowed under the high earners' restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8262/19]