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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We did. We said-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Much of the area was covered by colleagues. I know some other members talked about how the profitability of the insurance companies had not changed, but it has changed and has changed dramatically. These reforms have absolutely worked, but they have worked for the insurance companies. Those companies have made a fortune, many millions, on the back of the reforms introduced in these Houses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As to how long this has been going on, the working group for insurance reform was set up in 2016. We had the programme in 2019. Now we have a second programme and all the rest. As I said, I campaigned for some of this. I was not alone; others here campaigned for it and other parties put forward legislation. If you look back, however, and ask if it has been a success, the answer is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Jennings for his answer. I have absolutely no intention of giving up on it. This committee has done really good work on insurance in the past. Members have mentioned my legislation and so on, but we have acted really well as a committee to challenge the industry and get it to deal with some of the core issues. There was a point when the committee, with some of the reforms that...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Prices (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline any legal impediments to re-introducing the market revenue cap in the wholesale electricity market to guard against spikes in the gas markets increasing all electricity costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 480. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue that would be raised by introducing an additional USC rate, of an additional 3% on incomes above €140,000. [44545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 481. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue that would be raised by increasing commercial stamp duty to 12.5%. [44546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 482. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue that would be raised by restricting PRSI exemption for share bases remuneration to SMEs. [44547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 483. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue that would be raised by applying an additional 1% stamp duty to all share buybacks. [44548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 484. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the revenue that would be raised by reducing the standard fund threshold to 1.5 million. [44549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 485. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by applying a €3,000 tax on private jet departures. [44550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 486. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by amending the help-to-buy scheme to reduce the LTV ratio 85% with a maximum relief of €25,000. [44551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 487. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by applying CGT to SPV disposing of Irish property. [44552/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 488. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by applying CT to all SPV that hold a beneficial interest in any Irish property. [44553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 489. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by applying a 0.1% charge on all assets set out in form S110 held by qualifying companies under section 110. [44554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 502. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the rent tax credit with the credit equivalent to 8.3% of an individual’s annual rent with a minimum credit of €1,250 and a maximum credit of €2,500, per year, clarifying both the full cost and the net cost if the Government has any funding allocated for rent relief in 2026. [45027/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 503. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of increasing the rent tax credit with the credit equivalent to 8.3% of an individual’s annual rent, with a minimum credit of €1,500 and a maximum credit of €2,500, per year, clarifying both the full cost and the net cost if the Government has any funding allocated for rent relief in 2026. [45028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 504. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would raised by introducing a 25% or 50% cap respectively on corporation tax relief utilised in a single year by NAMA-participating banks, in first and full year terms; and if it has been introduced in the year 2024. [45029/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 505. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue raised by introducing a 25% or 50% cap respectively on corporation tax relief utilised in a single year by all banks, in first- and full-year terms; and had it been introduced in the year 2024. [45030/25]