Results 181-200 of 481 for going forward speaker:Pearse Doherty

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...difficult for workers, families and struggling home buyers to purchase and own their own home; — institutional investors holding rental property avail of significant tax advantages and exemptions granted to them by the Government; — these institutional investors include Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), introduced by the Fine Gael-led Government in the Finance Act...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ..., the Department of Finance argued for increasing taxes on these funds. We can see from freedom of information requests that an official did so. However, the Minister voted against that when we put forward that type of proposal. In 2019, the Department carried out a report which said these funds were buying big swathes of property, talked about locking people out of home ownership and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Stardust inquiry. Budget 2021 allocated funding for an inquest into the Stardust fire after years and years of campaigning by the families. I commend those families who have never let this issue go. A commitment was made that no family would be prevented from accessing justice, but that is not the case with many of them now being denied legal aid. My colleague, Senator Lynn Boylan,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry Regulation (31 Mar 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...ask hard questions. These awards should be reduced right now. There is no need for delay but there is a need to be able to measure this. That is why I am disappointed that the Government was going to vote against an amendment to this legislation I put forward last week that would allow the Government to measure what the awards would be if the legislation was not introduced giving effect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tá scéal ann inniu go bhfuil sé le fógairt ag NatWest amárach nach mbeidh Ulster Bank ag trádáil níos mó sa mhargadh ina dhiaidh dó a bheith anseo ar feadh 160 bliain. Drochscéal a bheas ann d’oibrithe, don phobal, do ghnáthchustaiméirí agus don gheilleagar ar fud an Stáit. Tá Ulster Bank ar cheann de na...

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank all of the 26 speakers who have spoken on this legislation so far, those who offered their support - outside of the Government speakers who are attempting to delay this legislation - and those who mentioned me, in particular. This legislation is about fairness. I will deal with some of the issues put forward by Government spokespersons in their rebuttal. To the Minister, Deputy...

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...motion and the order before us do not involve any new policy decisions or specific funding allocations. The motion is concerned with money included in the 2020 allocations voted by the Dáil that has gone unspent. Rather than going back to the Exchequer, the 2004 Act allows for unspent allocations to be carried forward up to a maximum of 10% of capital allocation by Vote. This was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)

Pearse Doherty: He would have known, during this period where these documents were going back and forward, including the salary suggestion on 23 December, that he might be taking up the position as interim Secretary General or that it was at least a possibility.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Mar gheall ar pholasaí Fhine Gael agus Fhianna Fáil, ní bheidh a teach féin ag mórchuid d'oibrithe ar fud an Stáit. Oibríonn na daoine so go dícheallach agus go crua. Chíonn siad ó tuairisc na seachtaine seo nach bhfuil toil pholaitiúil ag an Rialtas le luach na dtithe seo a ísliú. Tá an gnáthduine fágtha ar...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...obair atá á dhéanamh acu ar fud an oileáin. Tá sé sin cloiste agam na céadta uair. Tá tacaíocht faighte acu ó Shinn Féin agus ó Theachtaí trasna na bpáirtithe agus Teachtaí Neamhspleácha le fada go leor. Caithfimid níos mó a dhéanamh ó thaobh na comhair chreidmheasana agus tá...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ..., to extend it in subsequent Finance Acts. It is not always the case that those who earn more pay more. I am interested to hear the Minister's comments. Is he stating that the programme for Government's commitment to introducing no income tax increases is no longer valid? Is that now subject to the report of the commission of taxation? I have no problem supporting the Minister on...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...at a rate of 2.5% for each additional €1,000 over €100,000. Amendment No. 8 calls for an additional solidarity tax for individual incomes above €140,000. A similar measure to that provided for in amendment No. 7 was introduced by Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain under a Labour Government many years ago. This progressive measure would bring in...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...places matters too. Many people, including people from my extended family, commute from west Donegal to Dublin on a weekly basis and there are costs incurred. Being at home and being able to go to the local café as opposed to the café in the city centre is equally important for businesses in those communities. As I said, the issue of accelerated capital allowances involves...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (2 Dec 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...Stage for further emphasis. I will not repeat all that was said on Committee Stage. We had a serious engagement over three days with the Minister on many of them, but some of them require further emphasis. Before going further, I thank the officials from the Department and the Revenue Commissioners for their briefing material and their facilitation of Sinn Féin in preparing for this...

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

Pearse Doherty: ...Indeed, people came off the pandemic unemployment payment and 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?...

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

Pearse Doherty: ...which way to suit his own narrative. Nobody is disputing the fact that those payments needed to be made. Indeed, they were vital and the right thing was done by the Minister and his colleagues in Government at 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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...an urgent GP referral to a gynaecology outpatient appointment; from gynaecology outpatient appointment to urgent diagnostics ... and-or from diagnostics to intervention. Today we learned that things have gone from bad to worse. A further three cases of delayed diagnosis have come to light in Letterkenny University Hospital, bringing the total number to 41. This begs the question as to...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Tá ár dtír, mar atá a fhios againn ó thuaidh agus ó dheas, faoi bhagairt Covid-19 don chuid is mó den bhliain 2020. Cuireann an Bille seo atá os ár gcomhair inniu i gcuimhne dúinn go bhfuil bagairt eile ann. Is é sin an Breatimeacht agus nílimid réidh leis an mbagairt sin go fóill. Much of this time over recent weeks and...

Finance Bill 2020: Financial Resolution (11 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...their food and run their cars. On the basis that this set of motions contains motions 5 to 8, inclusive, dealing with sections 26 to 28, inclusive, of the Finance Bill, Sinn Féin objects to this going forward.

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...of the legislation on Second Stage but I hope we will have the opportunity for proper scrutiny of all the provisions on Committee Stage and later on. It has now been three weeks since the Government announced budget 2021 and it came at a time of great challenge for our people, our economy and our country. As I stated three weeks ago, it came at a time of great uncertainty because we...