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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?

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

Pearse Doherty: What does that mean? The witness said it would be beside the Border but not on the Border. What does that mean?

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

Pearse Doherty: Would it be a facility? What is the purpose of it?

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

Pearse Doherty: Would be diverted to this facility?

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

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. That is welcome information that this committee should have. It brings some clarity. Language is being used which is not getting to the substance of the issue. What is meant by the phrase, "no return to the borders of the past"? Is it that no British soldiers will be standing at a customs post as customs officers check if a person has two pounds of bacon in the back of...

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

Pearse Doherty: It would be remiss of me not to wish the officials from Departments well. I mean that because we need a positive outcome in the negotiations. The points we are putting forward will be published in a further document on Brexit dealing with some of the issues that I am raising. We will send it to the officials. We wish the officials well, but no matter how good the outcome of the Brexit...

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 valid. I have one last question but I want to make another comment first. The outcome will determine whether there would be a trigger but I expect the normal process in negotiations would involve this being teased out. If that is the outcome, what would trigger the exceptional circumstances provision? Usually, we do not leave it until the end to find out the outcome. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) with regard to a share merger; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22714/17]