Results 1-20 of 36,633 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: There is a real crisis for people living in unsafe homes with defective concrete blocks. That crisis is far from over, despite what the Government may think. People are still living in fear every time there is a red weather warning, forced to watch as cracks spread and walls shift, as their home crumbles right around them. The Ulster University study summed it up best when it described it...
- Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: We all know - at least those of us on this side of the House - that there is a substantial additional cost to disability. There is a mountain of evidence, report after report, setting it out in black and white. The cost lands on the shoulders of individuals and families across the State. The question we in Sinn Féin and those on this side of the House are asking is why the Government...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The Irish fishing and seafood industry received terrible news in the past week that there will be further devastating cuts to the mackerel quota as well as cuts to blue whiting and boarfish. This has been referred to as economic Armageddon by the industry. My constituency of Donegal will be hit really hard by this. The European Commission has known for many years about the reckless...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Seriously? Does the Tánaiste really believe that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste speaks about honesty. I will read back his words from before the election-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: -----so maybe he does not put much credence in it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Wait until he hears what Fine Gael promised the people. It was to increase the higher tax-band threshold, raise the point at which a worker enters the higher tax-band by at least €2,000 each year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: That is what Fine Gael promised.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: It promised a plan-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: ----on childcare costs within 100 days.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The Government has no plan. Fine Gael has broken promise after promise because that is what Simon does.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: He says what needs to be said at a point in time-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: -----and then forgets all about it. The families of scoliosis know that and now the workers right across the State know what he is all about.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Two and half million workers have been abandoned in this budget. I put it to the Tánaiste, at a time when the Government made tax breaks available to investors, banks, developers and landlords, why did it consciously decide to leave workers worse off in this budget? That is shameful.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: What it has done is shameful. It has broken its promise. Can the Tánaiste explain-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: -----why he made a pledge that it would lift the burden on workers and decided consciously to favour developers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: -----investors and landlords over the people who are out working and building our economy?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael promised to abolish the USC. Does the Tánaiste remember that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: It was to abolish the USC.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The Government made a choice on tax to give €2.5 million of taxpayers' money-----