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Other Questions: Departmental Investigations (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister about any work the Department of Finance has carried out in examining the potential benefits of an all-Ireland economy and if he will elaborate on the matter. He mentioned, in the context of the earlier question on Brexit, that 27 leaders of member states across Europe had discussed this issue in the context of the negotiating guidelines. What work, if any, is the...

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will suspend the help-to-buy scheme in view of the large increases in house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23357/17]

Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Following the last discussion, it would be helpful if the Minister indicated whether the Government intends to respect the outcome of the vote on the resolution passed in the Dáil not to sell AIB shares. He should do that during Question Time. My question relates to the help-to-buy scheme, a matter Deputy Michael McGrath has already teased out with the Minister. Our position on it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Why is this information not being put into the public domain? Why is the Minister still refusing to do so?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I do not fault the Office of the Revenue Commissioners for doing its work or the scoping exercise in which it is engaged in planning on a contingency basis. My understanding is the plan to divert 8% of freight traffic crossing the Border and have roaming customs patrols randomly stopping people does not represent a hard border solution; it is part of what it is called minimising the impact...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance the options being considered by the Revenue Commissioners with regard to the Border post-Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23773/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday at the finance committee, we had the Revenue Commissioners before us for the first time. They gave us information on some of the contingency plans they were looking at for Border controls post-Brexit. The information was quite concerning. The Minister might be aware that I made a freedom of information request for documents that the Revenue Commissioners held. Indeed, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Brexit Issues (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday's exchange at the committee was illuminating, although it was like pulling teeth. However, it did establish some facts that some of us, at least, knew were the case. Mr. Barnier told us last week that there would be consequences of Brexit for the Border. Of course there will be consequences and some type of Border posts or customs posts will be in place, even if they are not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: My concern is that the Central Bank has carried out a review of 11 institutions, including three that I have very strong reasons to believe are involved in breach of the consumer codes by not disclosing their interests in the underwriter. That should have been picked up by the Central Bank when it carried out its review. It was not. A judge has now ruled in a test case that the defendant's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I have responded and I will continue to engage with the Central Bank, but I think there is also a responsibility for the Minister and the Government to engage with Permanent TSB, for example, to ask it about this section, which the courts have ruled was tantamount to misselling a product, and why it did not disclose to people who bought payment protection insurance that it had a relationship...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank will reopen the investigation into the misselling of payment protection insurance in view of a court ruling that the failure of a financial service provider to alert a consumer to the fact that the insurance company involved was part or fully owned by the provider constituted misselling; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I wish the Minister well following his earlier announcement. We have had many battles across the Chamber and this may be the last in this format. I want to thank the Minister for his engagement so far. The issue I have raised here is payment protection. It has been brought to my attention that there is potentially a whole new wave of payment protection insurance, PPI, policies that have...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after "fall at a rapid pace. due to economic growth" and substitute the following: "and adjustments unrelated to actual economic factors: welcomes the emerging consensus that the fiscal rules are flawed and that, as pointed out by some during the referendum on the issue, they now represent a very real impediment to the investment in our economy and...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2017)

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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]