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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is a policy decision.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Not having a cost-of-living package is a policy decision.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We would love a bit of clarity in the Minister's next two minutes. Nobody has got any clarity.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I was just excited because I thought the Minister was going to give us clarity.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No, we did not.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is a policy decision.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Not having a cost-of-living package is a policy decision.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We would love a bit of clarity in the Minister's next two minutes. Nobody has got any clarity.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I was just excited because I thought the Minister was going to give us clarity.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No, we did not.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is because two thirds of the year were gone.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Government promised this during the election and in the programme for Government. What is the Minister talking about? It is written in his own programme for Government.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Now it is "We will do our best."

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I commend the motion to the House. The Minister and the Government are all over the place when it comes to student fees. The Minister went on the national broadcaster and scared the bejeysus out of every student and parent across the State when he told them in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis that student fees were going to go up. It came like a bolt out of the blue for every parent...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any financial support is available for housing extensions where household income is over the financial threshold to qualify for a sufficient local authority housing adaptation grant for disabled people to carry out necessary adaptations for disabled persons to continue to live at home; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance appeal (details supplied). [37361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (8 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 730. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 28 May 2025, the number of people currently in prison that have previously been in State care as children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (3 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with the Minister for housing to ensure that HAP can resume the practice of issuing a tax certificate for a 20% deduction to meet the requirements of the non-resident landlord withholding tax for landlords based in the North of Ireland renting a property in the South to a HAP tenant rather than requiring them to engage a private tax...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (3 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of registered tax collection agents; the number of accounts or advisors preparing tax returns for collection agents that is, the number of tax advisor identification numbers submitted through the collection agent registration form; the number of landlords they are operating on behalf of that is, the number of distinct tax reference numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (3 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 24 June, to provide further detail on non-dividend related income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36789/25]