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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Compensation Fund (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a legal pause in cases related to a company (details supplied) due to the fact solicitors and barristers acting on behalf of the insurance compensation fund are seeking Government assurance on the position of uninsured defendants. [44713/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend his proposal to cap the write-off of intangible assets to 80% to include all assets which claim annual write downs; and his views on whether his proposal as structured could allow large multinationals to pay minimal or no corporation tax. [44716/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 35. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce measures to level the playing field in the property market that would stop investors using tax efficient structures, including IREFs and REITs and large multinational companies from pricing ordinary first-time buyers and families out of the market, as evidenced from investors being the main driver of cash sales in the property market...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the parties that he or his officials met with to discuss issues relevant to budget 2018; the names of all attendees; the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44553/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Money Laundering (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the State is not fully implementing EU anti-money laundering directive four in relation to the beneficial ownership of trusts; and if it will be fully implemented. [44563/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that self-employed persons had for the purposes of their self-employed activities including trade and professional in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44564/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the corporation tax paid by companies which contain self employed income including trade and professional earnings in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44565/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 60. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out in dividends by the self employed from their own companies in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the EU budgetary contribution expected from the State for 2018 and 2019; the modelling that has been carried out to determine the State's estimated contribution post Brexit; the quantum this might be in the potential different scenarios for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44567/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of services and treatments that will be available to children on an all-island basis in the new national children's hospital; the way in which it is anticipated that Brexit will impact on plans to achieve and implement this proposed care delivery model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44573/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocation provided to an organisation (details supplied) for the provision of community and residential neuro-rehabilitation services for persons with acquired brain injuries in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44644/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all requests for funding received from a service provider (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the amount sought on each such occasion; the purposes for which moneys were being sought; the dates on which such requests were received; if applications for funding were approved, partially approved or rejected...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding options available to local authorities to formally apply for moneys to construct dedicated pedestrian infrastructure projects such as footbridges should such a project represent a road safety benefit to road users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44568/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Events (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 352. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contribution his Department will be making to Dublin City Council in preparation for the Euro 2020 competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (24 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason early years education and child care providers were not included on the closure list as part of the precautionary closure of schools and higher education institutions in response to Storm Ophelia; her plans to include child care facilities to the recognised facilities and or services which are closed as a precaution to adverse...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I want to pick up on Ms Rowland's final point. Given that tracker mortgage victims are being overcharged, does the Central Bank not have the power under the Act to impose redress and compensation for the overcharging that has happened since 2013?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank is of the view that certain populations of individuals should have been afforded or offered tracker mortgages but they are not on such mortgages and, therefore, they are and have been paying higher interest rates in the period post-2013. Does the Central Bank not have the powers, given the fact this is happening in real time, to impose sanctions or impose redress and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps Ms Rowland can clarify the position in order to assist us. She has given information to the committee to the effect that the Central Bank is in dispute with two individual banks about groups of people who should be in scope. The banks in question are disputing this with the Central Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I imagine that there is no rate rectification in the context of those two populations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. There is no rate rectification for them-----