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Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Order 180(2). It is important that insurance companies are held to account. I ask that the Government stop objecting to this legislation and make sure that savings are passed on to customers and not the profits of the insurance companies.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will try again but the Tánaiste never gives a direct answer. I asked him a simple question. After spending €2.2 billion, there has been complete incompetence from the Government with the national children's hospital. He cannot even tell us if he believes the hospital will be open to treat children by 2026. That was a simple question. I will try again about the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is not what penalty-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government guaranteed those timelines.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is asleep at the wheel and the Tánaiste will not answer the question concerning 2026.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Tá tuilleadh moille tagtha ar ospidéal na leanaí, agus tuilleadh airgid ag teastáil. Tá an Rialtas ina gcodladh agus é seo uilig ag titim amach agus ag dul le sruth. Many years ago, when Deputy Leo Varadkar was Minister for Health, he said that short of an asteroid hitting the planet, the national children's hospital would be built by 2020. Today we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Those words really came out of the Tánaiste's mouth, that his Government is determined that the taxpayer will get value for money in respect of the national children's hospital. Is he serious? It has gone from €650 million up to €2.2 billion and the chair of the board cannot guarantee that it will not go higher. If you want an example of Government incompetence, then...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government is considering revising the defective block redress scheme given the issues that are emerging with the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24413/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (30 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given recent committee meetings, the Government is considering revisiting and altering its defective block redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (28 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if plans are in place to widen Curreen Bridge, County Donegal on the Glenties side of Fintown on the R250; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (28 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update for the proposed autism unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 394. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 555 of 23 April 2024, when a full HSE response will be received. [23613/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is simply not acceptable. I ask the Minister of State to put herself in the shoes of the parents or the staff. She talked about helping the children to find suitable alternative placements if no accommodation can be found. No one knows where those placements are. The staff do not know if there will be jobs for them after September. She previously said that one strand of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure the Minister of State is aware that the defective concrete block crisis has ravaged my county of Donegal and other counties. It has destroyed people's homes, farm buildings and businesses but it is also affecting community organisations across the county. Some of these community organisations are technically being classed as commercial buildings, including organisations like the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The credit union consumer sentiment survey has shown this week the impact families are under as a result of the cost-of-living pressures. Some of those pressures have been brought on by the Government. Last month, it increased the price of petrol and diesel and it plans to do that twice more after the local elections. Insurance prices are increasing at an alarming rate, while the insurance...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Really?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You do not turn up when Eoin Ó Broin is looking for debates on RTÉ.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am happy to swap seats with you if you will not answer the questions from here. This is Leaders' Questions. If the Government wants to take over the Opposition, we will happily go over there and the Government can ask us the questions. Please answer the questions. It is Leaders' Questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Come on. You are in government.