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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (13 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46844/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh Mr. Draghi, Professor Lane agus Johannes Lindner. The Irish people have paid a huge price for bailing out the Irish banking system and the ECB played a very negative role in that regard. Some would say it played a very sinister role in increasing the costs to them. The refusal at the time of the ECB to support the Government's desire to burn senior bondholders has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is those bondholders should have been burnt and the ECB did not support the Government when a Cabinet decision was taken to burn senior bondholders. It is now the policy of Europe if such an event were to happen that there would be a bail-in of senior bondholders. All the advice was not correct. Indeed, not everything is great in Ireland. The GDP figures are going well, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let me finish. There are 4,000 children who will not have a home and will wake up in emergency accommodation on Christmas Day. Not everything is going well. I ask Mr. Draghi particularly about the European Commission's proposal for a suite of legislative measures on non-performing loan, NPLs. One proposal includes the rules for establishing a vehicle to buy non-performing loans without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Monetary Policy: Exchange of Views with Mr. Mario Draghi (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Would a NAMA for mortgages be permissible for the ECB as a way of Ireland dealing with the NPL issue and avoiding the sales to vulture funds? What are Mr. Draghi's views on MEPs' proposals on the legislative proposals, especially the refusals that their loans would be sold to another institution?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom fosta cur leis an méid a bhí ráite fá bhás Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin agus comhbhrón a chur in iúl ó mé féin agus ó pháirtí Shinn Féin dá theaghlach, don chlann ar fad agus dá chairde ar fad. Níl dabht ar bith ann gur laoch mór é ó thaobh an cultúir de...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Since August there have been ongoing problems relating to the payment of illness benefit which have resulted in some of our most vulnerable citizens not getting any payment and others receiving varied payments from week to week. On Tuesday the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, took to her feet and blamed the problems with payments on the transition to a new system. She...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Before the winter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: On Tuesday, the Taoiseach disgracefully tried to shift the blame for his and the Government's failure to tackle the perpetual trolley crisis in hospitals by attacking our hard-working and diligent nurses and doctors. Not content with insulting tens of thousands of front-line workers once, yesterday, the Taoiseach doubled down on his remarks. The Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It absolutely was.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let us call a spade a spade because doctors and nurses know what the Taoiseach was at. They know he was attacking them. They know he was trying to shift the blame for the lack of capacity and the lack of recruitment and retention policies the Tánaiste's Government has failed to deal with onto the front-line workers. It has not been lost on those nurses and doctors that when the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 142:In page 121, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“Report on introducing betting duty rate 34.The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on introducing a 3 per cent rate of betting duty to be paid by the punter directly when placing a bet.”. Amendment No. 142 seeks a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Section 36 relates to car rental, and there is an issue with the sector that has been brought to the attention of a number of us and of which I am sure the Minister and his officials are well aware. Deputy McGrath's amendments, which cannot be moved, deal with some of those concerns as well. There is a concern from those in the sector that leases cars that this will have a detrimental...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with the vast majority of what the Minister said. A tax relief introduced at a certain point in time should always be automatically reviewed within a short period, by which I do not mean 25 years. I welcome the Minister's approach of reviewing these reliefs and questioning whether they are still warranted. It is the appropriate approach to take. My concern is that this change was...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 149:In page 130, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:“Report on increasing floor of diesel rebate scheme 40. The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report of increasing the floor at which the diesel rebate scheme becomes available for Hauliers.”. This amendment concerns the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is welcome that the Minister is open to reviewing the scheme. As I said, there are lot of things we may have to do, depending on the outcome of any Brexit deal. As I have argued, unless there is a complete reversal of the decision taken by the British people two years ago, there is no possible deal that will not have an impact on the haulage sector. In my wildest dreams I cannot...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that the Minister did not make changes. In fairness to him, he tried very hard on the latter point but the rug was pulled from under him with the carbon tax by his partners in Government. That must be put on the record. I take the Minister at face value on equalisation in the Brexit context.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I mentioned the Minister's partners in Government.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: No, the other partners in Government.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is a minor matter. I welcome that there will be a review. We must examine the issue in a genuine and serious way, taking on board the fuel tourism issue. While there will be an uptick in drawdown because of the price of diesel, it will not be at the level it should be at because the practice is that when a haulier goes abroad, he or she fills up before coming back. They do this because...