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Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: There are many other schools that have not been-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 12. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the favourable tax treatment for real estate investment trusts and Irish real estate funds in view of reports that these are a factor in increasing house prices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23360/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request flexibility with regard to the fiscal rules in view of the well documented impact of Brexit on the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23358/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2018 (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will rule out further tax cuts in budget 2018 in view of recent disappointing Exchequer returns and to ensure all fiscal space is directed towards maintaining and improving public services and investment in capital infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Authentication (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific documentary evidence deemed acceptable in circumstances in which a British citizen does not have a driving licence or passport as identification for the purposes of securing a public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy prohibiting first response paramedics deployed from Northern Ireland from providing treatment according to their qualified skillset, such as suturing, to persons when dispatched to attend to calls here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23680/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence (details supplied) from campaigners in County Donegal regarding the national maternity hospital; if a response has been issued to the correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23814/17]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Tá mé ag roinnt ama le mo chomghleacaithe. There is an advertisement that appears regularly on people's social media. It is from Insurance Confidential and is an Insurance Ireland creation. The advertisement is supposed to show us how fraud is the reason all of us have been paying so much more for car insurance in the past few years. Every so often the advertisement pops up on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (17 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home help assistance for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23401/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I want to tease out further some of the earlier questions. Deputy Michael McGrath asked about effect of border customs controls if the UK were outside the customs union. The witnesses talked about IT and other electronic systems. In Mr. Callinan's view is the best-case scenario no customs controls on the Border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is that realistic? When Commissioner Moscovici appeared before the committee and I asked him, he said it does not exist anywhere in Europe. There is no third country that has a border with the European Union without having controls of some sort. Are we in fantasy land? Is it realistic to suggest there would be no border controls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We hear language here such as no hard border, customs controls and so forth. We also hear European language that is militarised - the language of hard customs controls in Europe where borders are actually armed, whereas soft borders are where there are just normal customs controls. What do we mean by minimising? What would have to happen in order to have no customs controls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Revenue is planning for the possibility of customs posts along the Border. Is it not correct that it has such contingency plans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Let us not split hairs here; we are not talking about that point in the middle of the bridge that separates the two sides. They were never on the Border; they were just off the Border on the Irish side or the British side or whatever side. That is how customs will operate; it will be on the territory. If it was Donegal, the customs control was in Lifford. The chief negotiator appeared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I submitted a freedom of information request concerning records in regard to the establishment of possible customs posts along the Border. I received 31 documents containing that type of records in reply to that query . A number of them are from the Revenue Commissioners. They include presentations to several Departments and email exchanges. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say that the Revenue Commissioners are planning. None of us is naive enough to think that it is planning before Brexit negotiations have begun. I asked if it is the case that Revenue has contingency plans in regard to customs posts along the Border. Until I referred to the freedom of information document I received which quotes 31 records, the witness said it was trade...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Will the witness give the committee the details of the Revenue strategy in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Revenue has identified several locations where customs posts could be erected in------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is Revenue looking at several suitable locations?