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Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be restored for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal at Stranorlar Community Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if extra home help hours will be allocated for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if an extra carer will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a procedure carried out at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20950/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 396. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the threat of closure facing a facility (details supplied) for adults with disabilities in County Donegal owing to its financial situation and lack of available funds; if an additional subvention will be made available to the facility in view of the risk this situation now poses to the continuation of service provision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 432. 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. [21342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Rates (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of abolishing the charge of an excess in circumstances in which a vehicle is taxed for less than 12 months, that is, motor tax being more expensive when charged for six months as opposed to 12 months. [21220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Rates (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 488. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of changing the rates applicable for the half-yearly and quarterly options for motor tax renewal from 55.5% to 51% for a half and 26.25% for a quarter of the annual charge. [21221/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Rates (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of changing the rates applicable for the half-yearly and quarterly options for motor tax renewal from 55.5% to 50.5% for a half and 26% for a quarter of the annual charge. [21222/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax Rates (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of changing the rates applicable for the half-yearly and quarterly options for motor tax renewal from 55.5% to 50.25% for a half and 25.5% for a quarter of the annual charge. [21223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the rail link from County Sligo to County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a campaign established by a group (details supplied) in response to existing transport proposals outlined in the national planning framework under Project Ireland 2040; if his attention has been further drawn to the group's criticism of the exclusion of the western rail corridor project from TEN-T...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Planning Framework (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 521. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to a campaign established by a group (details supplied) in response to the national planning framework under Project Ireland 2040; if his attention has been further drawn to the negative impact which the group claims the policies will have on the social and economic development of the region as a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be raised by introducing a new employers’ rate of pay related social insurance of 15.75% on the portion of salary paid in excess of €100,000 per annum. [21192/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is appropriate that the Chair opened this meeting with those words because the nation has been gripped by that interview. I can only imagine how difficult it was to speak publicly on that. We were discussing earlier among ourselves how one would sit down with one's family and young children and explain to them that one was going to die when one should not be in that position. The words...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte go dtí an coiste roimh an Ollamh Lane agus a chomhghleacaithe. Ba mhaith liom tosnú le ceist ar na morgáistí. I will start with the issue of tracker mortgages. We had 3,400 additional victims added to a list which has now reached 40,000 according to the Central Bank's recent report. Are there other cohorts the bank is disputing with the banks or is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I understand exactly what Ms Rowland has suggested. At this point there is no dispute between the Central Bank and any of the financial institutions on what it and they believe are impacted customers, although they might have a different view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: There is ongoing engagement and the Central Bank is of the view that there are certain cohorts that should be included.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Is the issue of the prevailing rate closed in the Central Bank's view? This will come as a major disappointment. I am sure all of my colleagues have the same experience. We have received countless emails and other correspondence from individuals who want to know if it is now up to them to seek redress through the courts on the issue of the prevailing rate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (10 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Does that mean that there is a chink of hope for individuals to say there is still engagement between the Central Bank and some institutions on the issue of the prevailing rate?