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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is misinformation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given the fact that revenue raised by the increase in the carbon tax in 2024, estimated at €117 million and €152 million in first and full-year terms respectively (provided in page 4 of the Budget 2024 document ‘Tax Policy Changes’), revenue raised by legislated increases in the carbon tax is not provided within the revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for taxpayers to file a tax return in order to avail of mortgage interest relief; if he is concerned that said requirement could act as a disincentive for eligible taxpayers to apply for this relief; his Department’s understanding of the rationale for this method of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 17 January 2024, the number of residential units subject to the 10% rate of stamp duty with respect to the acquisition of certain residential property where a person acquires at least ten such units during a 12-month period, disaggregated by county in which the property was located, in each of the years 2021,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Media Sector (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 319. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if content which promotes or hosts fraudulent ads or scams is defined as harmful online content under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill; and whether there are provisions under the legislation for such content to be regulated in line with harmful online content defined under the legislation with similar enforcement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can be allocated a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 603. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the only child and adolescent counselling service in Donegal is to close in March; if he is aware of how important this facility is for young people in Donegal; if his Department will make up the shortfall in funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2593/24]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is in the Chamber and she may want to take this question. I raise the important and sensitive issue of the closure of the Letterkenny-based child and adolescent counselling service. It is the only one in our county and it is a vital amenity that provides services right across the county, not just in Letterkenny but elsewhere. Some 120 clients avail of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We have asked that the HSE and Tusla directly engage with people.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister of State had a chance to intervene to date and can she shed any light on the matter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is double digits in Dublin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The vulture funds are buying hundreds of homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The vulture funds are buying hundreds of homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Faoin Rialtas seo, níl dabht ar bith ach go leanfaidh creach-chistí ar aghaidh ag ceannach tithe teaghlaigh atá ag teastáil ó cheannaitheoirí tí atá ag streachailt. Caithfimid stop a chur leis seo. Tá moladh curtha os comhair na Dála ag Sinn Féin chun deireadh a chur leis seo ach tá an Rialtas ag diúltú agus ag cur in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister can huff and puff all he wants. A Belcamp Manor is happening every month under his watch. He knows it. The figures stand over exactly what I said. There were 623 homes bought by vulture funds and investment funds last year alone. That is the equivalent of a Belcamp Manor every single month. The majority of those purchases are in the region of Dublin. In the first nine...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I thank all the Deputies who spoke in support of the motion. I appreciate their contributions and I note the amendments that are before the Dáil as well. We have a long track record on this. We have been proposing amendments to the finance Bill for many years before this ever became a public issue. Our motion before the House today calls for at least 17%. That number has been looked...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Honest to God. To be generous to the Minister of State, the brass neck award goes to him. He is the Minister of State and his is the party that wrecked the bloody economy, that threw thousands of families into negative equity and ruined their lives. Many of them had to get on planes because of what his party did in the housing crisis. He sits there with a brass neck and tries to lecture...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Shame on you for supporting house prices and wanting them to go up further. Shame on you for allowing the vultures to buy apartments over first-time buyers.