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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
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) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Minister give an indication of when he expects that, after considering the report, decisions will be made and clarity given to individuals with severe and permanent disabilities on the scheme going forward? I will give an example of a disabled driver and how the scheme operates currently. This individual has a severe, permanent disability and, because of the nature of her...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...have queued for food parcels today. As parents are sitting down wondering how they will feed their kids supper and what is in store tomorrow and next week, they are watching this debate hoping the Government will recognise their hardships and plight. The Minister, who is the Minister for Social Protection not just for the Fine Gael Party but supposedly for the State, failed to address...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...Ireland this month shows that food poverty is worsening, with 10 per cent of parents surveyed forced to use food banks in 2022 and 29 per cent reported skipping meals to ensure their children could eat; — average gas bills have gone up by around 140 per cent over the past two years, while the average electricity bill has increased by around 115 per cent; and — recent...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...because so many people are struggling as a result of high interest rates. For some borrowers, they have increased on five occasions since June of last year. I described some of the arguments put forward by the Government as stupid arguments. I did so because the Government speakers have tried to suggest that every mortgage holder in the State will get €1,500. However, the motion...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: -----or to purport not to understand the proposal that is being put forward, despite my earlier contribution, in which I addressed increased interest rates. It is about trying to minimise, downplay and brush off instead of recognising there are probably people listening to this debate who are hanging on and hoping against hope that the Government will see sense in the context of introducing...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...to tackle unfair trading practices, which farmers had been demanding and which in recent years have been granted to other regulatory authorities in the State. There remains, however, some way to go if this new office is to deliver the fairness and transparency in the agrifood supply chain that the Minister has said he wants to deliver. As it stands, the new office will provide little...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...parties requested a question-and-answer session with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, later this afternoon. It is appropriate that Deputies would be informed whether the Order of the House is going to be altered and whether what was unanimously agreed by the Opposition and put forward - a question-and-answer session - will be facilitated today. I think that would be fair.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...xe9;id atá ceadaithe faoin dlí. Tá an cheist seo á seachaint ag an Aire ó 2017 agus dhiúltaigh sé aréir d’aon cheist eile a fhreagairt air seo. Tá ceisteanna ann a gcaithfidh sé a fhreagairt. Níl dabht ar bith faoi sin agus tá sé tuillte ag an bpobal go bhfreagróidh sé na ceisteanna sin. On 14 July 2020,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...county. We hope that the steering group will seek to provide recommendations to address this acute regional imbalance and that the reviewers also examine proposals that we have submitted to bring forward recommendations relating to directly connecting Dublin to Derry and, by extension, to Donegal. Derry is the fourth largest city on the island of Ireland. The fact that it is not...

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...32 hours in the hospital without getting a bed. Eventually, Tanya was so tired and distressed at seeing her son in that situation that she took him home, only to be told later that he had pneumonia. She did not risk going back to that hospital, because it was over capacity and under serious stress. She only had praise for the doctors and nurses in the hospital, who are run off their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...agus dár n-ospidéil, ar fud an Stáit. Níl altraí ábalta tithíocht a fháil in aice leis na hospidéil ina n-oibríonn siad. Tá altraí sa tír seo againn anois a chaitheann leath dá gcuid pá ar chíos achan mhí agus go minic ar thithíocht atá mí-oiriúnach, agus tá go leor daoine ann...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will go to something else that is unrelated to the Bill but connected in a way when we are talking about holding individuals to account. We welcome the provisions to hold individuals accountable. However, there is a gap in the toolbox for the Central Bank to be able to operate. In many circumstances, particularly those that are most public and most damaging, issues have been identified...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Tá sé tagtha chun solais go bhfuil táillí bóithre dola ar fud an Stáit le hardú go dtí an leibhéal is airde. Is buille ollmhór é seo d’oibrithe agus do theaghlaigh, ag am ina bhfuil praghsanna peitril agus díosail chomh hard is atá siad. Buailfidh na táillí seo go mór agus go díreach iad siúd...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am going to press the amendment. It does not call for the introduction for the relief, as the Minister has said, at the standard rate. It calls on the Department to put forward a model that is targeted and tailored. The Minister and the House will be well aware that at different times during the phasing out of this relief right up to 2011, because the rates then reduced, in certain...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...No. 11. It was not today or yesterday that I started to raise with the Minister the need to introduce a rent credit. Time and again, he has taken the position of telling us a rent credit would go into the pocket of landlords. Those words were echoed by his party leader and the Taoiseach. Year after year, the Minister said a rent credit would make the situation worse, there would be...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...it. This is the Finance Bill and he has done nothing about it. Mazars made it clear that this is poorly designed in respect of affordability, house prices and its objectives, yet the Minister comes forward with a Bill to extend it. He said the Government's objective is to reduce house prices. By God, it has fairly failed on that one. Can he cite one year during his tenure as...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...collectively over the past 12 years have resulted in a social nightmare, where 11,000 people are in emergency accommodation and where this Friday, my children and children throughout the State will look forward to "The Late Late Toy Show", but others will be in hotel rooms and emergency accommodation wondering how Santa Claus will visit them this year, maybe not for the first time in...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...;naiste and former Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, made commitments around the USC on numerous occasions that he has broken. He used to parade around the streets of Dublin with big posters saying he was going to be the leader that abolished the USC. He then made a speech at his party Ard-Fheis saying he was going to merge it with PRSI. The Minister for Finance told us recently that neither...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: There is a lot to go back on there. I will begin by responding to Deputy Matthews through the Chair. When Sinn Féin members were arguing over a year ago for the restructuring of the wholesale energy market at European level, who championed the opposition to that in Europe on behalf of Ireland? It was the Green Party leader - the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan - who clubbed together with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Just to clarify this, in a forward-funding arrangement by an institutional investor with a developer who is going to build say, 40 houses and an institutional investor goes into a forward-funding arrangement with him - as opposed to a forward-purchase arrangement as under forward-purchasing they would have to pay the stamp duty - but under a forward-funding arrangement, would the stamp duty apply?