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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Targets (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure allowed in 2020 and 2021 that would be permissible before breaching the medium-term budgetary objectives taking into account projected general Government balances; and if he will provide the same data for different Brexit scenarios. [15218/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Targets (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected fiscal space from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date; and if he will provide the same data for different Brexit scenarios in tabular form. [15219/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Targets (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 123. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected total general Government revenue from 2019 to 2024 in both gross figures and as a percentage of GDP; and if he will provide the same data projected for different Brexit scenarios. [15220/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Targets (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected total general Government expenditure from 2019 to 2024 in both gross figures and as a percentage of GDP; and if he will provide the same data projected for different Brexit scenarios. [15221/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the components of pre-committed expenditure in each year from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date; and the gross figures for pre-committed expenditure in each year in tabular form. [15213/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projections for expenditure to account for demographics from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date in tabular form. [15215/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the components of pre-committed capital expenditure in each year from 2019 to 2024 or the latest available date; and the gross figures for pre-committed capital expenditure in each year in tabular form. [15214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if correspondence from a person (details supplied) has been received; the efforts being made to address the concerns outlined therein; when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14880/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a home help assistant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15180/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding can be made available to County Donegal to employ home help assistants to alleviate waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15181/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that have been approved for the homecare package but are yet to receive allocated home help assistants in County Donegal since 1 January 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15182/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 334. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15246/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 409. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is planned to extend high-speed fibre broadband to St. John's Point, Dunkineely, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14983/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is planned to extend high-speed fibre broadband to Ballycroy, Dunkineely, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if applications for carer’s allowance increase for a qualified child, IQC, payments for foster children are linked to child benefit payments; if so, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14963/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance IQC payments relating to foster children are paid from the date of application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14964/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome our guests to the session. When the Central Bank appeared before the committee last week, I outlined that the intention behind the Bill is not to affect the access to liquidity, passive securitisation or access to ECB collateral, and that will be easily addressed on Committee Stage. I would be surprised if other members had different opinions but that is up to them and the Bill is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It definitely would not because that goes to the core of the Bill, which is that the Bill would not allow without the borrower's consent the bank to sell on the loan to a vulture fund, and that would apply for existing contracts henceforth. That would potentially remove a tool, given that it would be unlikely for many borrowers to give their consent to vulture funds, which I will come to in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In response to earlier questions on the Bill, Mr. Tobin said that it may or may not cause an increase in mortgage interest rates. Which is it? The Department provided the committee with a written submission which was all over the media this morning and gives the impression that the Department had a crystal ball, which enabled it to determine that the Bill would result in higher mortgage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee
No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Discussion (2 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I do not want to nitpick but words are important. Mr. Tobin did not say, "it is likely to increase"; he said, "it will lead to." It is surprising that the Department was able to come to the same conclusion as the IBF.