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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is the employer providing the product that it provides to the public.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously if the Department does not know how many individuals, it has not identified the likely revenue stream from it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am not familiar with the practices of these health insurance companies. For example, I am not familiar with how the contracts of employment are working in VHI. I am not sure if the people answering telephones and looking after front-office desks are being provided with free health insurance as part of their remuneration package. Many of them would not be on substantial incomes and may...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am not arguing against the Minister; I agree with the proposal. In developing the proposal, is the Department familiar with a State-owned company which may be paying certain staff - I am not certain because I am not familiar with this - minimum wage but in addition provided a health policy which was worth €3,000 for them and their family, but is now only worth €1,500 as a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I ask that the Minister monitor the situation. I just Googled it and it seems that it is standard practice for VHI to offer all of its employees a tax-free health package. That is stated on its website. For low-income earners, this is a take home pay cut. It is a tax, so it should be monitored where we have the power to do so.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister read out his note on section 9, please, if he would not mind? It will just be a clarification.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach talked about ending the double Irish. The double Irish still exists and will exist up to 2020 because that is the amendment the Taoiseach supported when he was in Cabinet. He talked about country-by-country reporting. His Government, along with Fianna Fáil, blocked public country-by-country reporting under an EU directive, on which the Government raised the subsidiarity...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Let us go down to the details. Four weeks ago I addressed this Chamber when talking about the sweetheart deal the Government did with Apple again. We have the Paradise Papers that confirm my fears that the Government did enter into another sweetheart deal. This deal is at the cost of hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money, which is money we should be investing in housing, health and roads.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: If the Taoiseach is so hung up on transparency, will he publish all of the lobbying that took place in 2014 and 2015 for the decision by the Minister to change the intangible assets write-off against profits from 80% to 100%, which is costing this State €750 million per annum?

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The biggest beneficiaries are the Taoiseach's friends in Apple.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Publish all the papers.

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is still operational.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Advisers Data (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Taoiseach the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his #Department; the annual salary of each adviser; if these persons were special advisers immediately prior to taking up their current role or immediately prior to the June 2017 Cabinet reshuffle; if so, the minister to which they were appointed to; the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Advisers Data (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the names of the special advisers employed in her Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in her Department; the annual salary of each adviser; if these persons were special advisers immediately prior to taking up their current role or immediately prior to the June 2017 Cabinet reshuffle; if so, the minister to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Research and Development Data (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance when the inconsistency regarding the treatment of research and development in the State’s balance of payments, that is the way in which it is treated as intermediate consumption, will be rectified in view of its knock on impact on the State's EU contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45658/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Data (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected figures for net fiscal space in each of the years 2019 to 2023. [45681/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgage Examination (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which persons that were customers of a bank (details supplied) were offered tracker mortgages pre-2006 are being dealt with by the Central Bank in its examination; if these cases are included in the examination process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46924/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of high standard variable rates was raised during his meeting with the banks in October 2017; the progress made by the State owned or other banks in reducing their standard variable rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45816/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of commercial real estate transactions that occurred in the week preceding budget 2018; the way in which this figure compares to the average number of transactions per the relevant week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45952/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Aid Investigations (7 Nov 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance if other countries have made claims to the moneys awarded to the State as a result of a court ruling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45964/17]