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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Foreign Direct Investment (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the savings that would be expected if the special assignee relief programme, SARP, scheme was abolished. [48968/18]

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

Pearse Doherty: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the personal tax credit for the single, married, and so on credit by €50, €100, €200, €300, €400 and €500, respectively. [49007/18]

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

Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 13 November 2018, if the date of 1 January 2019 for removal of flat rate expenses is accurate. [49051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the revenue raised by increasing the national training fund levy from 0.7% to 1% and 2% and 5%, respectively. [48959/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of abolishing the surcharge on non-annual payments of motor tax. [48969/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all social welfare entitlements arising from PRSI contributions for PAYE workers in receipt of widow’s and widower’s pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49099/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (27 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the revenue raised by increasing the rate of the vacant site levy by 1%, 2% and 5% respectively. [48960/18]

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Of course, we have campaigned against it.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have tabled motions and called Fianna Fáil out time and again.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have called the Deputy's colleagues in Fianna Fáil out.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy can hide under the skirt of the confidence and supply agreement, but what he is doing is pushing up the price of a mortgage for 400,000 householders.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The truth hurts.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should stand up, be a man and get out from under the skirt of the confidence and supply agreement.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should stand with those who are being penalised by rip-off mortgages by supporting the amendment.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am pressing the amendment.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should put his money where his mouth is.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fianna Fáil negotiated an increase in the price of a mortgage for hundreds of thousands of families. That is a fact. Hundreds of thousands of families will be penalised because of it.

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 38:In page 145, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following:“Report on mortgage interest relief 62. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on maintaining the current Mortgage Interest Rate Relief until such time as mortgage interest rates are equivalent to the European...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There is absolutely no basis on which the Minister can say this measure pushes up house prices. It is in place for persons who are being absolutely ripped off by banks, in which the Minister is the majority shareholder. They are charging twice the interest rates being charged by our European competitors and the Minister sits there and does absolutely nothing about it. That is nonsense....

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We have listened to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and to the previous Minister, Deputy Noonan, for a number of years. They continued to tell us that everything would be okay. We have heard all the different measures they introduced such as the help-to-buy scheme and now giving tax breaks to landlords. The latter measure is not just supported by Fianna Fáil. It demanded that it would...