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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Staff (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount the tax take would increase by in 2018 by hiring 125 qualified Revenue Commissioners staff to tackle black market activity and tax evasion (details supplied). [32122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a rainy day fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the self-employed tax credit in circumstances (details supplied). [32223/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated impact on the 2018 fiscal space of abolishing the help to buy scheme. [32543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue from ending the capital gains tax exemption from the sale of property held within REITs. [32544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue from introducing a minimum DWT rate of 25% on all dividends paid by REITs. [32546/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue from ending the DWT exemption for non-resident IREF shareholders from dividends related to the sale of property held within an IREF for five years. [32545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue from introducing a minimum DWT rate of 25% on all dividends paid by IREFs. [32547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Data (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount accounted for by demographic pressures in precommitted spending and in carryover by Department and budget line for 2018 in terms of the fiscal space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33100/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 383. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding a discretionary medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32222/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 452. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32643/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding requirements for Donegal Airport through each of the various approved schemes by capital funding and current funding, respectively, for each of the years 2017 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32128/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (11 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 693. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a decision will be made in respect of an application for the sports capital programme by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32735/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: This is the Minister's first time in front of the committee and I hope we will have many good engagements during his period as Minister for Finance. As we enter into the budgetary process, he can trigger the process whereby his officials engage with members of the Opposition in the preparation of an alternative budget. It requires annual sanction and I ask him to sanction the process for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I would not expect anything less of him and welcome his clarification on whether officials can engage with members of the Opposition. I wish to discuss the fiscal rules, the Commission's stance on the budget and banking union. This will be the Minister's second ECOFIN meeting and the first we have had a chance to discuss with him. Did he discuss the need for reform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It is welcome that the Minister raised the issue with the EIB. I have raised it with the governor and there is nothing to prevent the bank from continuing to invest in a non-European Union country. There should be special recognition for the North. It is now accepted across the board that there is a need for an adjustment to the fiscal rules and I encourage the Minister to put the matter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that and the fact that Brexit will be a dominant factor for a number of years. Even without Brexit we still need a change to the fiscal rules. Everybody who is tuned in around this table knows there will be changes to the fiscal rules. There has to be because they are not working. They could not have worked because of the way they were designed and they are definitely not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is it the Minister's view, because I am a wee bit confused, given some of the major policy changes and given we have a new Minister for Finance and new Taoiseach, that we need changes to the fiscal rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Does that mean changes to the fiscal rules?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: ECOFIN Meeting: Minister for Finance (6 Jul 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody disagrees with the objectives of the fiscal rules. The objectives of the fiscal rules are keeping debt low and running balanced budgets. Nobody disagrees with the objectives. It is the criteria being used to get to those objectives that are not working and require change. We need to formally put that demand for change onto ECOFIN. If the Minister delays any longer on the summer...