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Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...is important to the sporting life in my constituency in Donegal: the new Finn Harps stadium, an issue I have raised with the Minister in the past. It is a shovel-ready project that would create local jobs and serve the sporting life of the community. Over a decade ago €1.2 million was spent on this project, but since then it has been left idle. Work has stalled since 2014. It is...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “Report on economic and distributional impact of the Help to Buy Scheme 8. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the economic and distributional impact of the Help to Buy Scheme.”. As we begin Report...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: No. Let us deal with this. Regardless of the Minister's intention, will he clarify whether the payments that were made between 13 March and 5 August, which was before they were put on a statutory basis, were paid out, as has been repeatedly said by him and others, under section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005? Is that the legal basis on which those hundreds of millions of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...went back to full wages. The Minister gave his euro example. Does he acknowledge that over the 21 weeks in which he is asking us to go back in time and make this payment taxable from 13 March to 5 August, the total amount that would have been received by somebody in receipt of the PUP during that period would be €7,350? If the person was paying tax at the 20% rate, which does not...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...the time. However, there had to be a legal basis for making those payments. The Minister accepts that the undisputed legal basis for that is section 202 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. Indeed, that is what we are talking about here. It is the section to which section 3 of the Bill relates. Section 202 is about supplementary welfare allowances in cases of urgency, that...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ..., the Government introduced the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS. It is a scheme beset with deficiencies, which I have raised since its announcement. This scheme reduced wage supports by up to 50% and excluded a cohort of the lowest paid workers. It was clear from the time of its announcement in July, that the EWSS would be insufficient to protect jobs and support businesses while...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...healthcare staff are under immense pressure. A decade of underfunding, mismanagement and neglect under Fine Gael has left them in a vulnerable position. The Government cannot say it was not warned. As far back as 2009, the recommendations were clear. We had 289 critical care beds and we were told we needed 579 by this year. How many do we have today? We have 280. Instead of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...and no more big surprises. The Minister knows the parameters. I do not want a final decision as I know it has not been made and that things will change right up to the last moment but the Minister knows whether the figure is €500 million or €5 billion. He could give us a range indicating the space we are in. With respect to the Minister, and acknowledging this is his...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (6 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: What we are hearing from the Ministers for Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance, through the media, is that the package will involve Covid-related expenditure of €9 billion, of which €5 billion will relate to the income supports while the majority of what remains will relate to health. This is Covid-related and just intended to keep the lights on over the coming period....

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...crisis. It was not an option; it was a necessity. I also wish to note that the conditions for such spending have been particularly favourable for this State with the cost of borrowing at historic low levels. We know that the NTMA has issued €21 billion in bonds this year with an average yield of 0.25% and that is welcome. Some of the most recent issuances, as Deputy Farrell...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...On section 2, I will focus, particularly at this point, on the EIB guarantee fund. I understand the total amount we are likely to be able to draw down from that fund is €1.4 billion to €1.5 billion. We have concerns in Sinn Féin about what is being earmarked in the Schedule to the legislation. It provides a breakdown of the fund across Europe, 65% is for SMEs, 23% is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...confirmed that €180,000 in prize money was left out of three scratch card games over the last number of years. Two of these scratch card games, each called "Congratulations" and sold at €5 per card, were missing three of the top prizes, each worth €50,000. The other game was missing a top prize worth €30,000. This is a total of four jackpot prizes missing in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...win a €3, €5, €20 or a top prize. This is what their game is; it is about the odds. We are asked to believe that human error resulted in something that has odds of happening of one in 25 million billion. It is unbelievable for us to be able to accept that. Moreover, when this was found out the operator continued to sell these tickets. The private company that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...an issue here. If the statistics show that illegally consumed cigarettes, purchased outside the jurisdiction, have increased by roughly 3% and illicit cigarettes by 2% in the same period, it is a 5% increase but revenue for 2019 seems to be stable, to within €30 million of what was predicted. That suggests that not a huge amount of people have been deterred from smoking. A 5%...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2019: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: .... There is no evidence to suggest that two different metrics are connected. I will read from the Parliamentary Budget Office, PBO, examination in respect of this. It states: In 2018, at least 56% of HTB claims were above the average house price (€286,931). This poses some risk as schemes which stimulate demand for more expensive properties could put inflationary pressures on...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...of the Government and Fianna Fáil and are always accommodated in legislation such as this. Other workers will have to pay tax of 40% on their salary above the standard rate band while these multimillionaire executives will pay tax of 28% above the standard rate band. We do not even know the cost of this tax break but we can make some predictions. In 2016, 793 people, 18 of whom...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...climate crisis. It is a box-ticking exercise. Taxes are implemented to serve one of two purposes, either to change behaviour or to raise revenue. As it stands, the carbon tax has brought in €400 million every year since it was introduced, but it has not effected any real change in the behaviour of citizens or the policies of the Government. This is because behavioural change can...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...gains tax of 33%. The budget does not deal with other issues we have been highlighting to the Government. For example, in April this year, Green REIT, a billionaire property fund that has made a fortune from the property crisis, used the rules of the game to avoid paying €100 million in tax because it was CGT-exempt. It is also avoiding commercial stamp duty at 6% and it is now...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Properties (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Office of Public Works, OPW, has paid Green REIT €10.5 million to rent 85 to 93 Lower Mount Street and €5 million to rent a property in Harcourt Street since 2014. Given the lenient tax structure and treatment, which is backing up this international investors group, which is pricing families and domestic businesses out of the market, I ask the Minister why the Government,...

Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...xe1; rud faoi leith, sé sin iad siúd ag cuardach achomharc ó thaobh cúrsaí cánach de, agus na rialacha agus regulations ó thaobh prospectus de. Pléifidh mé an dá rud sin i gcoinne a chéile. Leasóidh mír 5 den Bhille seo mír 4 den Bille a thug muid isteach i 2015, sé sin an Acht um Achomharc Cánach. Sin an...