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- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: -----and how will they be accommodated within the fiscal space? On the increase in the net fiscal space from €500 million to €900 million, there should be a technical paper. In this day and age, the Minister cannot come into the Dáil and simply say, "By the way, the amount of money we can spend in the budget next year has nearly doubled." Those days are gone. That is...
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point. These data lead us to what the priorities of the country should be. One of the major challenges the country faces is posed by capital investment. We have the second lowest level of capital investment in Europe. That is not acceptable or sustainable. We have discussed Irish Water, on which there will be a debate later. In the context of that debate, what is...
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: The key is accepting that there is a policy debate, forming a committee as soon as possible and making the Minister's officials available to spokespersons and other Members who wish to tease out this issue.
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I echo the comments made earlier by the Sinn Féin Party. There is much talk about a new dawn, new politics and there being no more surprises in budgets. There is no reason this debate could not have been scheduled for later this evening or tomorrow. It has been stated the Commission must receive this document tomorrow. However, as far as I am aware, the ultimate deadline is the end...
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: That is appreciated. On the Minister's statement and that of the Taoiseach, that there is no policy change, of course, there is a policy change. Let us accept that. What we are dealing with are important issues for the State. The MTO change is a significant policy change. It will allow us to achieve our medium-term objectives in 2018 if we, as a country, or the Government, accept that...
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: As in the case of any policy change, a future Government will have the ability to change it, be it a policy to a build a school or a hospital or to increase or reduce taxes. I know that the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, was trying to save the blushes of the Taoiseach earlier this morning, but these issues, in the context of the figure of €1.5 billion involved, deserve more than an...
- Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: We agree.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Taoiseach to correct the record of the Dáil.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Ceann Comhairle tell me how I may proceed to ask the Taoiseach to correct the record of the Dáil to the effect that there are policy changes in the document?
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: We can look forward to a five-year suspension.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: The Deputy wants to put Deputy Enda Kenny back in office.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order-----
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, the Taoiseach has just misled the Dáil.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order on a very important issue, the Taoiseach has just misled the Dáil in regard to this.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I am going to make the point again. The Taoiseach has misled the Dáil.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: Let me make this point in fairness to the Taoiseach so that he can answer the accusation I am levelling at him. I am sure the Taoiseach has at least read page 1 of the document, which he states involves no policy changes.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: I will read the last sentence on page 1. It states, "While this represents a change in policy, a future Minister for Finance can choose to over achieve the-----
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: A change in policy is mentioned on page 1 of the document and I ask the Taoiseach to withdraw his comment saying this is a technical paper with no policy changes.
- Business of Dáil (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: There is a serious point here. The Taoiseach is suggesting that this document is a technical document with no policy change.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (27 Apr 2016)
Pearse Doherty: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of referrals made to the Workplace Relations Commission inspector in relation to non-compliance of section 14(1)(a) to (d) of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 concerning Sunday work and supplemental provisions in 2015, and to date in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8535/16]