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Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is now less than 24 hours before people go to the polls across the State and have their say on the continued presence of the eighth amendment in our Constitution. We are mindful that voting is already under way on our offshore islands. Many will have engaged with the arguments and propositions made during the referendum campaign and have now made up their minds on how they intend to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe uilig agus gabhaim buíochas leo fá choinne a gcur i láthair. I welcome the witnesses to the committee and thank them for the presentations, which are very informative. Later on we will have a session with the insurance company FBD, where we will be able to tease some of this issue out. I will begin by raising a concern that has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Irish Men's Sheds Association looked at group insurance, which is available across the board in different organisations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: My colleagues will come in with other questions. I will be brief but I have questions for other witnesses. Ms McGuinness from the Donegal Co-operative Livestock Mart gave us a very helpful table, which shows the dramatic increases in insurance in the past three years from 2015 to date. I see the cost of insurance for three of the marts in my constituency, namely, the Donegal, Stranorlar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ms McGuinness said there is a fear of marts not being able to absorb these costs in the future if they continue to rise. She has given us the data and how, for example, the premium for the Tuam co-operative has gone from €34,000 to €79,000. I am not familiar with the profit margins of the mart. Ms McGuinness said her job is to break even. I do not know if that cost is easily...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I know the Alliance for Insurance Reform has many very practical proposals to deal with the issue of reducing liability. The mart sector is part of the fabric of rural Ireland. It also deals with isolation. Ms McGuinness has made several helpful recommendations. I want to focus on the idea of a grant funding scheme to help marts cover the costs associated with bringing their necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition Law (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to order a break up of the big four accounting and auditing firms as is being discussed in the United Kingdom; the research or discussions that have taken place in her Department on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22951/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (24 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 27 March 2018, the reply for which was subsequently provided by the HSE, the methodology used to calculate and determine the occupancy rates at each of the facilities referred to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22994/18]

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a chur in iúl don Teachta Gallagher as an rún seo a chur os comhair an Tí tráthnóna agus tá áthas orm go bhfuil deis agam píosa beag caint a dhéanamh ar shon mo pháirtí faoin rún seo a bhaineann leis an gcóras pointí pionóis ar iascaireachta a chur i bhfeidhm ag an Rialtas. Ní seo...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: When the Minister, Deputy Harris, apologised to the 600 patients who were left on trolleys earlier this year he said he was the Minister with a plan, he had the resources and he was going to build capacity. A total of 458 patients are on trolleys and in wards today as I speak, including 21 in my county hospital of Letterkenny, there having been 20 patients on trolleys last Friday and 30...

Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Those beds were ready to go a year ago.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of cohabiting couples being treated differently from married couples for tax purposes has been examined; his plans to amend the situation; if the cost of such changes has been examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22115/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living Wage (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if a policy in which all State-owned banks work towards paying all their workers a living wage will be committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22116/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Supervision (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank will carry out an investigation into specific mortgage loans made by banks to their own directors as reported in the media on 16 May 2018 or examine this issue in its generality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22412/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised by reducing the research and development tax credit to each of 20%, 15% and 10%, respectively. [22549/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the status of efforts being made to secure a permanent second consultant breast surgeon post at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22239/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made to make the drug sapropterin available to patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22277/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 391. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 23 January 2018, the reason the referred reply to the HSE has not been supplied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22327/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if treatments for haemochromatosis such as scheduled phlebotomies are available under the long-term illness scheme; if not, if there are plans to extend the scheme with a view to include such treatments; the supports available to persons with the condition to assist with the cost of treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Integrated Ticketing (22 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the Leap card scheme to include other public transport services not covered by the scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the benefits which commuters can avail of such as reduced fares and discount features should the scheme be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22117/18]