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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home support services will be put in place to allow a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to remain in their own home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17272/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 253. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was refused funding for the purchase of special car equipment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the person in question cannot now be transported safely as a result of this refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17274/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has a funding mechanism in place for specially adapted car equipment for children with disabilities or conditions such as scoliosis; if such a mechanism exists, the process by which it may be accessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17275/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 255. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment to be assessed for home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17276/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 256. To ask the Minister for Health to provide detail of the rosters in respect of GP services and cover, specifically information relating to the provision of GP clinics, including dates, times and names of doctors, for each of County Donegal's inhabited offshore islands for each month in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17279/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 257. To ask the Minister for Health if dedicated clinics for the provision of vaccinations for children is available on Toraigh, County Donegal; the locations children living on the island can receive immunisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17280/17]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an fhinné chuig an choiste. Tá cúpla ceist agam agus phléigh an Teachta Burton cúpla ceann de na hábhair. I wish to dig a bit deeper on the taxes, in particular on PAYE and the USC. Mr. Moran spoke of the elasticity and the different rates and I would like to go into that a bit deeper. One of the clear ways that we may be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Does Mr. Moran have any indication of the cost of the tax foregone as a result of that rule?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Outside of that issue, will Mr. Moran explain to the committee the USC matter. Income tax is up by 1.4 % in its profile and USC is down 3.9%. USC is not linked to income tax in all cases, but a large proportion is linked. How could we be behind by nearly 4% in terms of profile?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am going to move on. Reference was made to the first quarter figures, and we take those figures with all the caveats that have already been mentioned. Mr. Moran has said that the Department is puzzling over that. Are corporation tax receipts for the first quarter also puzzling the Department given that this figure is 25% behind profile?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that clarification. The lumpy nature of the corporation tax is probably best shown by the fact that ten companies paid 40% of the entire corporation tax. I have been screaming about this for a long time. Are the witnesses concerned about the volatility of corporation tax or the risks associated with such a large amount of tax in small firms?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: One per cent of companies could be 1,000 or thousands of companies, particularly in the UK. We are talking about ten chief executive officers, CEOs, making a decision and there would be a huge hole in the bucket if they made that decision here and we would have serious austerity.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The European average is 10% but we are 15% so we are 50% ahead of European averages.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: In last year's budget they spent last year's fiscal space and half of this year's fiscal space in terms of the carryover. The net fiscal space that was available for the coming budget was approximately €0.5 billion. Has the Department altered the projections on that? Will we see something significantly different? The Department surprises us quite often. It came before the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We know that it will be continually revised. The exception taken by this committee, which monitors these issues, is to the fact that it was revised within a week and jumped 20%. That was not the first time it happened. It happened in the same way the previous year. We will tease that out. Could Mr. Watt tell the committee where we found the €120 million for the pay deal, the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: We have €5 million savings but we do not have the breakdown under the Garda headline. Has that €25 million-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The additional €25 million was allocated in the Revised Estimated but there was another €25 million to be identified in terms of savings in the Department. We do not have the detail of those savings in the presentation as to whether the Department is running ahead or behind profile or is on profile.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Watt have any idea of where we can make savings? Will the number of home help hours be cut or perhaps we will not renew some Garda cars? Will we cut social supports or community schemes? Savings have to be identified somewhere, savings which the Departments were not able to identify last year. Last week, public sector workers were notified of an increase under a pay deal which...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: As Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, does Mr. Watt believe the budget scrutiny committee should scrutinise where the money for the additional commitment is coming from or should we just accept that the Minister will find it? I agree with everything Mr. Watt has said. There needs to be flexibility and one needs to respond to things, but I am sure our role...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will not go over the point about the role of this committee to scrutinise all of those steps again. I asked a question on the €59 million that is required to meet the cost of not collecting water charges for the rest of the year. Will that be found from the same place?