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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: He has not announced much.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is mindboggling that the Taoiseach just ignores what is happening on the streets of our city. The real casualties in the fiasco of the national broadband plan are the 500,000 households that have been left without high-speed broadband. It is six years since this plan was announced and we do not even have a commencement date - never mind a completion date - for it. Initially, it was to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: What is the schedule?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I support the call for the Business Committee to be asked by the House to make time available this week to discuss the report, which is quite detailed. The report's implications are far-reaching, particularly for areas of my constituency and right across the rural communities of the west. It is appropriate that we would have sufficient time this week to debate the report.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Half the CAMHS teams are empty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is going on for years and the Taoiseach is only going to have a look at it now. There are 37,000 children and the Taoiseach is only starting to look at it now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fill the CAMHS teams. Half of them are lying empty. The Taoiseach promised to do that here. He failed to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: These lists are growing and the length of time people are on the lists is growing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Talk to the parents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is clear that nearly eight years into Fine Gael's time in office it is failing these children spectacularly. The Government will miss its own targets when it talks about child poverty, and miss its own target of lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. That is a fact. There are 37,000 children being failed by the State. I listened to him. This is just one example of many. One parent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: In recent weeks we have heard accounts of homeless families and their children walking the streets of this city at night because they have nowhere to go. Almost 4,000 children will sleep in emergency accommodation tonight. The plight of parents and children in poverty is shockingly illustrated in the picture in today's edition of The Irish Times, which shows young mothers and their children...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost incurred by a bank (details supplied) for its corporate hospitality event at the recent Ireland versus New Zealand rugby match. [48844/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost or revenue raised by a policy of a 5% income levy on income above €140,000 for individual income based on the latest available individualised data together with the tapering of tax credits on individual income between €100,000 and €140,000 at the rate of 2.5% per €1,000. [48932/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by increasing the rate of exit tax to be introduced in the Finance Bill 2018 from 12.5% to 20%, 25%, 30% and 33% respectively. [48961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by introducing a digital services tax of 1%, 2% and 5% respectively on digital services firms with turnover of €50 million or over here and at least €750 million globally. [48962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Recycling Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue to be raised by introducing a 1%, 2% and 5% levy on products with packaging which does not have at least 30%, 40% and 50% recyclable material, in tabular form. [48963/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Recycling Policy (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised of introducing a latte levy of 5 cent, 10 cent and 25 cent on each single use coffee cup used or distributed in a commercial setting. [48964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by standardising all pension tax relief at the 20% rate. [48965/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of equalising the earned income credit with the PAYE credit. [48966/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Relief Data (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in budgetary terms of retaining mortgage interest relief at the level it will be at from the 1 January for the next three years. [48967/18]