Parliamentary questions

Business Supports

Pearse Doherty

114. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider supports for businesses facing increased labour costs through the PRSI system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17062/24]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

20. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the revenue raised from restricting the employers' PRSI exemption for share-based remuneration to micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16899/24]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

21. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer in 2024 of not proceeding with scheduled increases in excise duty on marked gas oil on 1 April 2024, 1 August 2024 and 9 October 2024. [16904/24]

Seirbhísí Dátheangacha

Pearse Doherty

90. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Pearse Doherty den Aire Oideachais cén fáth nach bhfuil múinteoirí in ann clárú i nGaeilge leis an gComhairle Mhúinteoireachta ar líne sa bhealach céanna ar féidir é a dhéanamh i mBéarla, mar atá tagartha i gCeist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 128 den 29 Meitheamh 2023, agus an gcinnteoidh sí go mbeidh comhionannas ann do Ghaeilgeoirí go luath. [16372/24]

School Staff

Pearse Doherty

344. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the work that is underway to improve pay and terms and conditions for school caretakers similar, to that achieved for school secretaries; the stage this process is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16569/24]

Departmental Schemes

Pearse Doherty

454. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection how often carer's allowance is reviewed; the criteria upon which it is reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16001/24]

Tax and Social Welfare Codes

Pearse Doherty

469. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost if an employer’s PRSI credit were to be introduced with various credit rates (details supplied). [16438/24]

Tax and Social Welfare Codes

Pearse Doherty

470. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost if an employer’s PRSI credit were to be introduced at various rates (details supplied). [16439/24]

Tax and Social Welfare Codes

Pearse Doherty

471. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost if an employer’s PRSI credit were to be introduced at various rates (details supplied). [16440/24]

Disability Services

Pearse Doherty

565. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of organisations in Donegal that have been awarded funding from the Children's Disability Grant, which have received funding; the amount received; the organisations that have yet to be awarded funding; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16046/24]

Departmental Schemes

Pearse Doherty

571. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the children's disability grant will be provided to successful applications in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16589/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pearse Doherty

10. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the issue of future mortgage ability affecting homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks who avail of the DCB scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pearse Doherty

68. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage why the second meeting of the subgroup set up to examining issues relating the enhanced DCB scheme, which met on 11 January 2024, did not meet as planned on 21 February; why a meeting did not take place in March; if there has been further communication with homeowner representatives attending the sub-group since its first and only meeting; and if he will commit to convene a second meeting in a timely manner with meetings then scheduled on a monthly basis. [15704/24]

Tax Yield

Pearse Doherty

107. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the nominal value of VAT collected with respect to petrol and diesel in each of the years 2017 to 2023, respectively.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15936/24]

Tax Credits

Pearse Doherty

164. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of individuals who have contacted the community welfare office on account of the fact that they could not receive the mortgage interest tax credit due to having insufficient income and income tax credits; the number of such individuals that have received a payment as a result; the total value of such payments made as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15938/24]

Fuel Prices

Pearse Doherty

1. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will cancel the increases in excise duty on petrol and diesel scheduled for August and October of this year, given the cost-of-living pressures facing households, and their impact on trade for businesses in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/24]

International Sanctions

Pearse Doherty

2. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has engaged or will engage with fellow members of Economic and Financial Affairs Council, ECOFIN, to secure financial and economic sanctions against the State of Israel in response to flagrant violations of international law committed by the State of Israel in Gaza and the occupied territories of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15274/24]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Pearse Doherty

4. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the value of money disbursed under the mortgage interest tax credit to date, together with the number of successful applicants; the number of applicants who have received a partial credit; the number of applicants who were rejected on the grounds that they had an insufficient income tax liability; and if he will consider amending the credit to ensure struggling mortgage holders experiencing an increase in their mortgage costs can receive the full credit. [15275/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pearse Doherty

7. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance for an update regarding the issue of mortgageability as it relates to homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks, including his Department's engagement with the Department of Finance and the proposal of bridging finance products by the banking sector under the enhanced defective concrete block scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15231/24]

Tax Reliefs

Pearse Doherty

8. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the benefit-in-kind exemption for employer contributions to PRSAs, legislated through section 22 of Finance Act 2022, is facilitating aggressive tax planning; if his Department received recommendations from an organisation (details supplied) in June 2022 warning that such a risk would materialise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15232/24]

Financial Services

Pearse Doherty

15. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on consideration of changes to legislation to address the inability of consumers to make complaints to the Financial and Services Pensions Ombudsman with respect to vulture funds as a result of gaps in their regulation. [15234/24]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

28. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he or his Department are considering increasing the rate of and threshold for the 10% stamp duty with respect to the bulk purchase of residential property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15235/24]

Humanitarian Aid

Pearse Doherty

45. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his assessment of the deteriorating situation in Haiti and if he will support the humanitarian efforts in Haiti through both the Irish Aid programme and pooled funds such as the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. [15544/24]

Hospital Appointments Status

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15623/24]

Foreign Birth Registration

Pearse Doherty

53. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when a response to communication from this Deputy can be expected in relation to a foreign birth registration application (details supplied) submitted in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15305/24]

Passport Services

Pearse Doherty

56. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a passport application can be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose mother was sent abroad from a mother and baby home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15399/24]

Fuel Prices

Pearse Doherty

271. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that a marked gap in the price of petrol and diesel in the South compared to the North that will result from scheduled increases in excise duty this year could pose a threat to the trade and viability of firms and petrol stations in Border counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13598/24]

Financial Irregularities

Pearse Doherty

276. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance following the Trilogue agreement on EU level anti-money laundering legislation, whether he will amend S.I. No. 308 of 2023 to allow greater access for civil society and others to the register of beneficial ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13681/24]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

277. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by restricting the remittance basis of taxation with respect to non-domiciled individuals to a lifetime limit of two, three and five years respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13708/24]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

278. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of non-domiciled individuals taxed on a remittance basis in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [13710/24]

Tax Credits

Pearse Doherty

279. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to clarify eligibility for the mortgage interest tax credit with respect to cross-Border workers in particular in situations (details supplied); if such individuals may qualify for the mortgage interest tax credit; if not, if he agrees that this reflects an inherent inequity in the operation of the tax credit; and the measures he will consider to rectify it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13731/24]

Tax Code

Pearse Doherty

291. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance to confirm if his Department received a submission in June 2022 from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the tax treatment of employer contributions to a PRSA; his views on the organisation’s view that “if the current BIK charge on employer PRSA contributions is removed and such contributions are no longer considered for tax purposes to be employee contributions, there is a risk that some companies could fund through tax deductible PRSA contributions at a level higher than they currently can to an OMA, given that PRSAs are not benefit limited like OMAs”; the reason the proposals provided by the organisation to address this risk were not implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14117/24]

Tax Data

Pearse Doherty

292. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue generated annually by carbon tax increases in each of the years 2025 to 2030 respectively, with respect to the carbon tax increases in each of those years and on a cumulative basis. [14119/24]

Employment Schemes

Pearse Doherty

317. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated weekly and annual cost if the employment wage subsidy scheme were to be reintroduced with various subsidy rates (details supplied). [15372/24]

Employment Schemes

Pearse Doherty

318. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated weekly and annual cost if the employment wage subsidy scheme were to be reintroduced with various subsidy rates (details supplied). [15373/24]

Employment Schemes

Pearse Doherty

319. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated weekly and annual cost if the employment wage subsidy scheme were to be reintroduced with various subsidy rates (details supplied). [15374/24]

School Transport

Pearse Doherty

494. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 20 March 2024, where the answer claimed that children who have attended an all-Irish-language primary school may be eligible for school transport to an all-Irish secondary school if it is outside of the provisions included in the post-primary school transport scheme, if she will provide the exact criteria for this provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14659/24]

School Transport

Pearse Doherty

518. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education if school transport can be extended for children (details supplied) in Creeslough, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14877/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pearse Doherty

605. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the possible closure of a child care service (details supplied) as a result of the presence of defective concrete blocks in its building; if he can provide any advice to the organisation; if he has considered extending the redress scheme to avoid organisations like this one having to close its doors through no fault of its own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13759/24]

Defective Building Materials

Pearse Doherty

670. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the second meeting of the sub-group set up to examining issues relating to the enhanced DCB scheme, which met on 11 January 2024, did not meet as planned on 21 February; the reason a meeting did not take place in March; if there has been further communication with homeowner representatives attending the sub-group since its first and only meeting; and if he will commit to convene a second meeting in a timely manner with meetings then scheduled on a monthly basis. [14842/24]

Social Insurance

Pearse Doherty

761. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 12 December 2023, if the estimated revenue that would be raised in each of the years 2024 to 2030 for the rate increases specified are cumulative, for example, the revenue raised of €913 million in 2028 from a 0.2 percentage point increase in the Class A rate of Employers PRSI includes the revenue generated from rate increases in prior years); and, if so, to provide the same table with revenue generated in each year on a non-cumulative basis. [14278/24]

Social Insurance

Pearse Doherty

767. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 12 December 2023, the estimated revenue that will be raised in each of the years 2024 to 2030 by the proposed increases in all classes of PRSI, disaggregated by PRSI class, employer, employee and self-employed, in each scenario (details supplied), in tabular form. [14401/24]

Departmental Schemes

Pearse Doherty

933. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a TAMS 3 solar capital investments scheme application for a farmer (details supplied) in County Donegal; when the application will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13740/24]

Departmental Policies

Pearse Doherty

934. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has considered the reclassification of Magheraroarty pier in County Donegal as a pier for landing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13753/24]

Departmental Policies

Pearse Doherty

992. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has any plans to designate Magheroarty Pier, County Donegal as a landing point for UK-registered vessels, similar to other piers and harbours across the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14663/24]

Medical Aids and Appliances

Pearse Doherty

1173. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an ACC communication device can be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15323/24]

Disability Services

Pearse Doherty

1174. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will received a CDNT appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15324/24]

Mental Health Services

Pearse Doherty

1175. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 832 of 20 September 2023, when a reply will issue to this Deputy from the HSE. [15326/24]

Hospital Appointments Status

Pearse Doherty

1376. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment with the orthopaedic department in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14411/24]

Health Services Staff

Pearse Doherty

1439. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to provide for a dedicated consultant neurologist at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14574/24]