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

Pearse Doherty: I will leave it at that. We are all puzzled.

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

Pearse Doherty: I mentioned three areas, Garda pay, the pay deal for public servants and water charges. I raised this with the Minister on budget day because I expected this would be the outcome. These issues amount to close to a quarter of billion euro. In the next budget the net fiscal space will be half a billion euro. This is not an insignificant sum. I have no doubt that this will be accommodated...

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

Pearse Doherty: The median income is closer to €28,500.

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

Pearse Doherty: After the budget.

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

Pearse Doherty: Can the witnesses enlighten the committee any further on the correspondence between Revenue and the Department? There are approximately 20 e-mails, which have not been released under FOI, concerning the preparations being put in place to prepare for customs posts on the Border because of the potential for customs between the North and the South. The Department of Finance is not the only...

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

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

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

Pearse Doherty: We saw in the NAMA reports last year that it made a preliminary tax payment to Revenue in the region of €158 million for the profits accrued from 6 September, the kick-in date for the changes to section 110 and qualified investor funds that were introduced in budget 2017. That profit covers three months and would have been accounted for in last year's tax receipts. Do we have any...

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

Pearse Doherty: One of the big fears is that people and behaviours will change. The question is whether NAMA has indicated that it is going to change its behaviour? If one was to project NAMA's payment over the full year - and it did not pay over the full year because the changes only kicked in on 6 September - it would have had to pay around €600 million in tax to the State. It may have to do that...

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

Pearse Doherty: The commission of investigation will be established. There is an agreement in principle. The leaders of the political parties will be meeting with the Taoiseach in the next couple of days to agree a terms of reference. As the Minister said yesterday, the Department of Finance is likely to be subject to the terms of reference. The commission and the Department will each do their own work....

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: In the section of the programme for Government on updating the planning guidelines on renewable energy, it refers to the awareness of Government of the distress and the divisions in communities where wind farms are imposed against the will of the people. It pledged to update the guidelines within three to six months but we are ten months on from its publication and wind farms are being...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the protection of certain borrowers who are parties to credit agreements in respect of which the owners of the credit are unregulated through the regulation of the owners of the credit; and to provide for related matters. It is apt that Deputy Martin Kenny questioned the Taoiseach on what the IFA told us this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance his understanding of the term first-time buyer in the context of the Central Bank's macro prudential rules, the help-to-buy scheme and other schemes in which this term is used; if this is an identical term in all cases; if not, the differences in the terms used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16953/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance if, under the Central Bank's mortgage rules, persons seeking to buy a home with a partner are still classified as non-first time buyers if they have, for example, previously added their name to a mortgage on their parents' home for a short period,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if a mechanism exists whereby a person deemed not to be a first-time buyer can present a case as to why his or her specific circumstances are exceptional in the context of the Central Bank's mortgage rules and the help to buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16955/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) participating in JobPath can be released from the programme in order to take up a community employment scheme position in view of the fact they have previously completed a different CE scheme placement; if consideration will be given to such requests in situations in which difficulties have been encountered in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 274. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services are currently being provided at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; if not, the alternative provisions available to service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16887/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 295. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision to revoke a medical card from a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be reviewed in view of evidence having been supplied that supports claims by the card holder that every effort was made to engage with his Department and supply it with the required information concerning the holder's place of residence; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (5 Apr 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a 2016 GLAS payment issuing to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16941/17]