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Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As my colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn stated, people are waiting seven months for driving tests. As of April, 83,000 people were on the waiting list. Matters are getting worse because 10,000 more joined the list in the past three months. This is simply out of control, and the Government is sitting on its hands while it is happening. In some cases, the impact on these individuals is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: But it mentions the early audit.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Jesus Christ, they are implementing the audit recommendations. Do you not know what has been happening for the past eight weeks?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Do you not know?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: They are implementing the audit recommendations.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Do you not know what is happening? It is disgraceful that you would not do this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: But you are misleading the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You are misleading the Dáil.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Government does not have a clue what is in it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is an early recommendation that they were ready to implement. You do not have clue what is coming up.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You do not have clue what is coming up and neither does the Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The letters have been issued.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: So much for backbenchers wanting so much time on Leaders' Questions. The Government did all this for Lowry and now its backbenchers do not even turn up for the thing it forced through. It is so embarrassing. This week saw a historic vote in the Assembly in support of extending presidential voting rights to Irish citizens in the North. It is a powerful message from the Assembly, one...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Tánaiste and we will definitely take him up on that briefing. There are two points here. We know that tariffs increase prices on consumers but even if there were no tariffs there is a cost of living crisis. I really think that the Government does not get it. Whatever way the Government dresses it up, last week it actually heaped more pressure on families through the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá a fhios againn go bhfuil oibrithe agus teaghlaigh ag streachailt cheana féin le costais maireachtála. Déanann an chaint seo ar tharaifí dochar do ghnáth-theaghlaigh trí phraghsanna a ardú. Ní féidir leis an Rialtas seo oibrithe a thréigean. Tá na hoibrithe seo faoi bhrú cheana féin. Tá imní orthu agus iad...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a full list of all houses and gardens that are available for public view as a condition for an exemption from capital acquisitions tax on a heritage basis including the address, the days and times each is open to the public, any price payable for public access and the year each was opened to the public; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 287. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline all tax measures that are schedule to expire in 2025 or 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 288. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of flat rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23129/25]