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Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Answer a question about your own party's policy.

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think the Minister is genuine about this. We all know a general election is due in March or April 2016 at the latest. It is likely to take place at the end of next year, but that is up to the Government and circumstances between now and then. If an amendment was tabled today to the effect that by the end of 2015 the Minister would have applied for direct recapitalisation would he...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:"2. Following the passing of this Act the Minister for Finance shall in 2014 make an application for the direct retroactive recapitalisation of the capital injected by the State in Irish banks as per the Direct Recapitalisation Instrument.".This is a simple amendment which goes to the core of what is the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if mortgage repayments are taken into consideration when a means assessment is carried out for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39585/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Repayments (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the situation where the families of those who have died by suicide may be liable for the mortgage on a property until an inquest is concluded as the insurance cannot be assessed; his plans to allow for a more compassionate system. [39581/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on revising the regulation to allow farmers who are committed to the agri-environment option scheme to supplement the feed for their animals as currently the only time supplement may be added to the diet is under extreme weather conditions due to heavy snowfall or flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the retention fee for nurses to remain on the register with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; the amount the fee will cost in 2015; his views that this fee is justified and fair at the current rate; if he will consider reducing the rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by the Health Service Executive to include the drug Eculizumab in the community drugs scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39583/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has lost their taxi service through the rural transport group; if he will reinstate the taxi service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39587/14]

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: No, it does not.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The health system needs more than the €500 million that was taken from the health budget. To meet demographic demands in health, the system needs an additional €300 million to deal with a growing and aging population. This has not been provided. The Government has decided to stand still, keep the budget the way it is and not deal with demographic demands. This is...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is clear that the Government has lost its mandate and that it no longer has the support of the people.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: In the dying days of the previous Fianna Fáil Administration, it was clear that Deputy Martin’s party had lost touch with the people and the public mood. It was no longer able to hear what the people were saying. The current Government is worse because it has heard the voice of the people, yet it is carrying on regardless. Let me spell it out for the Taoiseach: the people are...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is not just out of touch; it is arrogantly ignoring the appeal of the vast majority of people for an ending of the burden of austerity on their families and their communities. It may seem strange to Government Deputies that this anger has spilled onto the streets and into the ballot boxes. Puzzled backbenchers are asking how this can be. The troika is gone, the economy is...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Where is the recovery for the family whose children will emigrate today, tomorrow and the day after? Where is the recovery for the 324 families whose loved ones are lying on hospital trolleys today? Where is the recovery for the non-verbal child waiting for speech and language therapy today, tomorrow and all of next year?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Like everyone else, I desperately want to see a recovery. However, a recovery is more than GDP statistics or marginal reductions in the live register. That is the point that the Government is missing. If it is to mean anything at all, a real recovery must mean that people's lives improve, that the financial and emotional burden of the recession is lifted and that tomorrow will be better...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is disrespectful but it does not surprise me that neither Minister is here to listen to the critique of the budget from Opposition parties. The Government takes the same approach with this House and parliamentary debate as it does when it stuffs State boards with personnel in order to try to have them elected to the Seanad.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The Government should restore some credibility to parliamentary democracy by listening to what we say.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: On Saturday, 100,000 people marched through the streets of Dublin in the largest demonstration against austerity since the crisis began. It was a march against the unjust water tax-----

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: -----dreamed up by Fianna Fáil and eagerly implemented by Fine Gael and Labour.