Results 1-20 of 478 for going forward speaker:Pearse Doherty

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That would be appreciated because the 9.30 p.m. cut-off provided in the section would impact on radio bingos that a lot of charities use to raise money. We made the point strongly last week that charities need to be exempt. The problem with legislation is that we have to deal with what is in front of us. I accept that the Minister of State spoke in good faith and it is clear from his...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...invested into the fund but this legislation does not stipulate that it needs to be in the case of surpluses, in the first instance. That is not the case. Today, we have to look at legislation which goes out to 2035 and beyond, as this first paragraph deals with 2035. One may be in a situation where there is not a surplus. One may also be in a situation where one may not see a...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...left because things have cooled down a wee bit. Let me just say for the record: this Government introduced a carbon tax every year on petrol and diesel for the next ten years, or since it was brought forward in the Finance Act 2020. The one thing I would say to Deputy O'Donoghue is that he was not even here. He did not vote against it; neither did he vote for it. He was not even here...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is pushing forward with Fianna Fáil's Bill that will cost local sporting clubs, charities and community organisations thousands of euro in vital fundraising. It is doing this because it is conflating fundraising with gambling across the board. We support the regulation of gambling. A quick search shows that Tus GAA Club, a playgroup, Club Limerick GAA, Tang GAA Club,...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...is that we should not be having commercial advertising in terms of gambling. I agree with the Deputy on that. It should be curtailed. That is my view. I recognise this legislation takes a step forward. I would like to hear from the Minister of State on the definition of "on-demand media service" and "on-demand sound service". I assume that is YouTube, Spotify and their equivalents....

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...to clarify this. This amendment deals with section 9 which repeals what would be, with the passage of this legislation, outdated legislation. However, what the Minister of State is bringing forward here is going to destroy the fundraising abilities of many local organisations in my community. The Minister of State is shaking his head but I will give examples of what I mean. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...PRSAs now providing a far higher level of free and tax deductible pension funding than under occupational pension schemes. This is a massive amount of money we are talking about. Not everybody is going to be able to do it, but some people are already doing it. The industry is telling people this is how you get your money out of your company. We have a situation now whereby even for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...family of Saoírse Ruane. She inspired all of us in this House. She also inspired the toy show appeal. She inspired all of us right throughout the State in her battle with her illness. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. I am thinking of all her friends and colleagues and, especially, her family today. Before the referendums tomorrow, I also make a final appeal to voters to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ..., said he was carrying out an audit because he did not even know if all the money he allocated went to scoliosis treatment. That was two years after he announced that allocation and on the day we brought forward a Private Members' motion because the issue is not receiving the attention it needs. The reason I have put this into the life experience of the child is that we have to be...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Deputy Cullinane for tabling this motion today, and for the solution and plan he has brought forward on this. More so, I thank the children who, as Deputy Cullinane mentioned, made a long journey - some in pain - to be here with us today. I genuinely hope this is the last time we ever have to go outside the gates of Leinster House and look at dozens of children, some of them in...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...her, she actually agrees with Sinn Féin, because she stated clearly in media interviews and she articulated it again today that the recommendation from the expert group that was established by the Government, which looked at all of the options for how we fund public service media and public service content, and having looked at all of them, including best practice internationally, it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
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) (24 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...on the record. In 2022, the year after the Government introduced these measures, the funds bought up 2,053 houses across the State. They were houses, not apartments. Let us not introduce the idea of forward funding, forward purchasing or forward financing. Let us talk about the fact that 2,053 houses were bought by institutional funds in 2022. Does the Minister know what percentage of...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody who spoke on the legislation, especially those who supported it. After three years of the Minister of State's Government being in office, the homelessness crisis has never been worse. That is a blatant, blunt fact. Each month it gets worse. New records are broken every single month by this Government when it comes to homelessness. As shocking as these new records are,...

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...í Cónaithe an tseachtain seo caite a bheith mar phointe ag a n-amharcann an Rialtas ar cad é atá ag tarlú ó thaobh iad sin atá ag díol cíosa sa Stát seo. Chímid ó na figiúirí a tháinig amach go bhfuil cíosanna ag dul suas 12% in aghaidh na bliana. Is é sin an ráta is airde a chonaic muid ó...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...changed. Personal rates of income tax have always applied to rental income. Landlords have benefited from the changes to the personal taxation system every year. The effective rate of tax a landlord pays is less now than it was ten years ago. The officials from the Department further said, "Any favourable treatment of passive personal income such as rent would raise legitimate...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...fairness. Even if somebody can switch, and the Minister says he is introducing the €80,000 limits because such people have a lower loan-to-value ratio and can switch, that does not mean they are going to get a lower interest rate. That is not the case. They have already absorbed this increase in the first instance. Even if they are switching to a fixed rate, they would switch to...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...at a maximum benefit of €1,500 per relevant household, for a period of 12 months.”. This is another example of where Sinn Féin is again setting the agenda and leading the charge. For quite a while now Government has resisted the idea of mortgage interest relief, just as it did in terms of support for renters. Finally, it has introduced mortgage interest relief....

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...is €5,500 extra on an average rent compared to before. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are not out of ideas. There are plenty of ideas. This is why you are making the situation worse. You are bringing forward proposals that actually make things worse. The first thing should be to do no more harm. Many of the issues we discussed previously during the Finance Bill, and we might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is the point. The bombs are raining down on children, women and innocent civilians right across Palestine. It does not require a change in the law. We have put this forward. The Government has delayed this by nine months but it does not require a law to be changed for ISIF, in my view, to do the right thing. I do not understand it. A change in the law is not needed. ISIF's...