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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]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT paid by sunbed premises in 2016; the estimated extra revenue that would be generated if VAT on these services was charged at the standard rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23010/17]

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

Pearse Doherty: 144. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons annually who availed of the CAT group A threshold in each of the years 2012 to 2016, in tabular form; the total value claimed through this threshold; and the number of persons whose claims exceeded this threshold, by the regions of Border, midlands, west region, Dublin region, east and south-east region and south-west region, as per...

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

Pearse Doherty: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons annually who availed of the CAT group B threshold in each of the years 2012 to 2016, in tabular form; the total value claimed through this threshold; and the total number of persons whose claims exceeded this threshold, by regions of Border, midlands, west region, Dublin region, east and south-east region and south-west region, as per...

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

Pearse Doherty: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons annually who availed of the CAT group C threshold in each of the years 2012 to 2016, in tabular form; the total value claimed through this threshold; and the total number of persons whose claims exceeded this threshold, by regions of Border, midlands, west region, Dublin region, east and south-east region and south-west region, as per...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department will make contact with a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in order to discuss and advise school authorities on the various funding programmes administered by his Department which may be suitable for the purpose of financing a planned school building project; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport scheme routes, including the names of the schools involved, for which the authorities have been forced to revise a previous decision (details supplied); the dates in each case on which such a revision came into effect by county for each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form; the reason in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 481 of 7 March 2017, if the proposed surgery for a person (details supplied) will take place here as part of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will provide further clarification on a possible date for the procedure. [22816/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from a health campaign and patient advocacy group (details supplied) in County Donegal requesting that he agree to facilitate a meeting between himself, the members of the group and Houses of the Oireachtas Members based in County Donegal; if he will facilitate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sunbeds Regulation (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sunbed units registered under the Public Health Sunbed Act 2014 in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 467. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an allocation for home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23177/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 471. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23211/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 481. To ask the Minister for Health the progress regarding the second breast surgeon consultant post at Letterkenny University Hospital; his plans to deploy and utilise the post on a cross-Border basis in collaboration with Altnagelvin area hospital, Derry; the nature of discussions that have taken place to date between both service providers involved about the post; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided by his Department for works and improvements to be carried out at a harbour (details supplied) in County Donegal in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the details of the most recent correspondence received by the local authority regarding proposals to develop the foreshore at the site; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (16 May 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 520. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to reports that the State is facing fines of up to €75 million each year if it does not meet its target of obtaining 16% of total energy needs from renewable sources by 2020, if his Department has factored these fines into expenditure projections over the next five years; the estimated impact of the fines...