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Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that:- the wrongful removal of tracker mortgage rates from mortgage holders, or a failure to restore mortgage holders to tracker mortgage rates they were entitled to, has affected thousands of families; - the damage caused by the action of the banks involved goes far beyond a purely financial effect and that the effects it has had on the health and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I have two questions. The first concerns a question the Commissioner answered earlier about the three rates of tax we would apply to multinational companies that would come under the current proposal. How can the Commissioner say this is not an issue of sovereignty when the proposal requires us to get rid of two of our existing tax rates that have been here for decades? The second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I was not asking about the peace agreement. I was asking if it was currently possible for a country to negotiate international trade agreements without having customs between it and another European state.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bus Éireann (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 139. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect on fiscal space if Bus Éireann were to be placed on balance sheet for the purposes of the budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2642/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on recent meetings he held with a bank (details supplied) regarding remuneration at that bank or any other meetings with other banks at which this issue was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2643/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the maintenance of a salary cap at the State-backed banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2644/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance the potential impact of items (details supplied) on the fiscal space for 2018, 2019 and 2020; if he will be issuing revised Exchequer targets for 2017 in line with the 2016 Exchequer out-turn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2812/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the levels of competition in the retail banking sector here, the benefits it confers on customers and the creation and sustainment of good careers; his further views on the possible withdrawal of a bank (details supplied) from the market; the engagement his Department has had with this bank regarding its presence in the market here; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Programme (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of each item of legislation listed in the legislative programme for his Department. [3188/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies Data (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all projects for which funding and business supports have been approved by Údarás na Gaeltachta, including details of the business type and activities carried out with respect to each; the details of the funding type and headings under which funding was granted with respect to each, for each of the years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made concerning the drafting of legislation to establish a new transport support scheme, which will replace the now closed motorised transport grant scheme; when it is expected that this process will be formally completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2820/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if patient referrals to the oncology department at a hospital (details supplied) for chemotherapy treatment are currently being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have received chemotherapy treatment as part of cancer services at a hospital (details supplied) for each month in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2853/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been referred from the oncology department at Letterkenny University Hospital to Galway University Hospital in order to receive chemotherapy treatment for each month in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an AEOS, agri-environment options scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2819/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive outstanding farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2875/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Law (24 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason Ireland is one of only four countries, including Belgium, Portugal and China, with audit firms registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, PCAOB, that does not allow PCAOB inspectors examine registered firms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2710/17]

Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017: First Stage (19 Jan 2017)

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

Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017: First Stage (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the law of consumer insurance contracts and to provide for related matters. In recent years we have seen the insurance industry treat its customers with arrogance and, over the last couple of years, completely unjustified and unjustifiable increases in motor insurance premiums. An incredible level of defensive spin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Mr. Moran. I, too, shared his view that there would never be a soft Brexit and I said very quickly that we needed to figure out what we could and could not control. Pretending there would be some type of soft Brexit, whatever that means, was just a bit of chat. The focus of the British was always going to be on trying to secure their borders. If we look back at different times...