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Pearse Doherty — Sinn Féin
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22 questions ·
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Questions asked22 total
Finance14 questions
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the communications that he or his Department had with a bank (details supplied) prior to its announcement of plans to remove cash, cheque and ATM facilities from 70 of its branches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42000/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered options to secure cashback without a purchase; if this is possible under current European Union regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42602/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2023 of reducing the second rate of USC from 2% to 0.5%, together with increasing the upper band limit for this proposed second rate of USC from €21,295 to €24,133. [44245/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated general Government balance for 2022 and 2023, respectively, given the improved revenue intake relative to profile in the recently published August fiscal monitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44291/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will publish the White Paper estimate of receipts and expenditure in early September 2022 in the interests of budgetary transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44292/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the funding allocated towards economic crime and financial fraud in each of the years from 2014 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44293/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2023 of not increasing the rate of carbon tax on 12 October 2022, 1 May 2023 and 12 October 2023, relative to the revenue baseline for 2023 implicit in the summer economic statement. [44294/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2023 of not increasing the rate of carbon tax applied to petrol, diesel and home heating oil on 12 October 2022, 1 May 2023 and 12 October 2023, relative to the revenue baseline implicit in the summer economic statement. [44295/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated total excise rates i.e. mineral oil tax applicable to petrol, diesel and home heating oil in 2023, implicit in the Summer Economic Statement, given its impact on carbon tax revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44296/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated number and percentage of taxpayer units who would benefit from an increase in the standard rate cut-off point; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44297/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of individualised gross incomes across the income distribution for 2019 net; the number of individuals in receipt of working-age social welfare payments and the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44298/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance if the individualised gross income distributions published by the Revenue Commissioners issued on 30 July 2018 and last modified on 12 April 2022 include all persons in receipt of social welfare payments, including the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44344/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the tax expenditures and reliefs that are due to expire at the end of 2022; and the estimated cost of extending each to the end of 2023, in tabular form. [44351/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying a zero-rate of VAT to non-oral medicines, disaggregated by non-oral medicine type; if zero rates can be applied to individual non-oral medicine types; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44352/22]
Environment3 questions
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the average domestic customer electricity and gas bill for the months of October 2020, November 2020, December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021, based on energy usage during the winter months; and the projected bills for corresponding months in winter 2022-2023. [44234/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has modelled the projected domestic customer electricity and gas bills for winter 2022-2023 based on average household energy usage and recently announced energy supplier price increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44235/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits and home energy efficiency upgrades across all Government schemes completed on an annual basis from 2006 to 2021; and the level of funding allocated and drawn down for retrofits and home energy efficiency upgrades across all Government schemes on an annual basis from 2006 to 2021, in tabular form. [44259/22]
Health3 questions
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery in Letterkenny University Hospital, the reason that planned surgery was cancelled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42057/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if funding has been made available for those families affected by defective blocks and who need mental healthcare; if so, if he will provide the details of the amount of funding that has been provided; to whom this funding has been given; the services that are being provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43648/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for surgery in Temple Street Hospital; if they are on the urgent or routine list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43981/22]
Social1 question
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of a once-off doubling of child benefit for one month and an additional once-off additional €100 payment of child benefit, respectively. [44197/22]
Agriculture1 question
2022-09-08Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if office space for a superintendent veterinary inspector living in County Donegal but headquartered centrally is available in County Donegal or if temporary office space could be made available and, if not, when office space in County Donegal is likely to be made available for a person with this role. [43101/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in genetic testing for confirmation of wild-type or hereditary TTR genotype for transthyretin amyloidosis patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43588/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to speed up the process of genetic testing for confirmation of wild-type or hereditary TTR genotype for transthyretin amyloidosis patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43589/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) can expect to receive services from the early intervention team in Buncrana; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44243/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to fill a position for a physiotherapist on the early intervention team in Buncrana, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44287/22]
2022-09-08Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the measures that have been taken to fill a position for an occupational therapist on the early intervention team in Buncrana, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44288/22]