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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I can understand where businesses are coming from. Can Mr. Dalton explain to the committee why businesses would have concerns, given that all of the other collection agencies, whatever form they take, will be bound by the same legal confidentiality that currently applies to the CSO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is it not mandatory to provide that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Let us park the issue that some multinationals and other enterprises might not readily give the information to the CSO despite having a legal requirement to do so. Let us imagine that they were providing it to us. Does this improve the situation or not in the medium term? Mr. Dalton has said that in the short term, the CSO will continue to gather export and import data. Six or seven years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I presume other countries are looking at us and saying this is a bit rich coming from the Irish, in terms of our GDP revisions and all the rest. I understand that the data says what it says. The problem is how far we were able to rely on those type of indicators and benchmarks in the past. I presume the calculations are correct. Eurostat has looked at all of this and given the CSO a clean...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Dalton. He has made a strong and convincing case in respect of the impact this would have in terms of our national accounts. We have many challenges in interpreting the data as policy- makers, especially in trying to figure out some of the anomalies we have seen from different data. Can Mr. Dalton comment on the reduction that we are seeing in the unemployment rate, which has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Sometimes as policy makers we do not have the luxury of waiting for 12 months. I agree 100%. For example, corporation tax is so lumpy that we cannot really comment on it for the first quarter or second quarter. Anyway, income tax should be more stable and predictable. The assumptions used to profile income tax should not be so far off in terms of the type of employment and so on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: If the CSO has any comment that it can send to the committee, it would be valuable for us in terms of our scrutiny.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an operation at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21211/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The programme for Government refers to the national maternity strategy. Many Members of this House are aware that interviews were held by RTE at national level and by some local radio stations with Lisa, who is the mother of baby Eoin, who was born prematurely and passed away in Letterkenny General Hospital last winter. Unfortunately, he was left in a room for up to a month before he was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has conducted a risk analysis of the potential impact to Ireland of reforms in the short, medium and long terms regarding the proposed US corporate tax changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20947/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to revise the favourable tax treatment, and in some cases exemptions, to taxes in the cases of retail estate investment trust Irish collective asset management vehicle and qualifying investor alternative investment fund that have invested in housing here in view of recent CSO data which shows that REITs and private equity companies have purchased...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an outstanding farm payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20946/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (3 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 297. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) concerning revisions to the wind energy guidelines; if a response was issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees to date and the anticipated fees paid by a bank (details supplied) to advisers regarding the initial public offerings of the company; the details of the advisers concerned and the fees each one has received; the estimated amount of final fees to be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19178/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Data (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of investors the Government’s advisers have met to discuss the initial public offering of a bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19179/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated impact on Ireland's debt ratio of the 25% and 100% sale, respectively, of a bank's (details supplied) shares at current market value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19180/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance the bonus or incentive plans in place for a bank's (details supplied) executives or staff linked to the initial public offerings of the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19181/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Protected Disclosures (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the whistleblower procedures for banks and other financial institutions are sufficiently strong and that they give adequate protection to whistleblowers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19595/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Protected Disclosures (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of whistleblowers' allegations currently being examined by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Protected Disclosures (2 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has considered re-examining historic evidence and allegations from whistleblowers in view of the new legal and ethical rules in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19597/17]