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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: How do we know? The Central Statistics Office is telling us. The Government is locking out an entire generation from home ownership and locking people into sky-high rents. The vulture funds and investors are sweeping up those houses and renting them out at astronomical prices. That is Government policy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will ask a simple question again. The Tánaiste can shake his head all he wants. Where are the 50,000 affordable houses that he promised to deliver that would cost less than €250,000? Please answer that question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Where are the 50,000 houses?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I asked a question-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste did not respond.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste can attack me-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste can attack my character-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: But I asked one simple question. Where are the 50,000 houses? The Tánaiste can attack my character all he wants; I do not care. Where are the 50,000 homes?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: No, I do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Ceann Comhairle mentioned that this was a debate. This is not a debate or an engagement if the Tánaiste refuses to answer. It is not a debate.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Bhí an traein mall inniu. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste. Faoina Rialtas, tá praghas na dteach ag méadú le bliain anuas. Méadú de 7% a chonaic muid inné. Ar fud an Stáit anois, tá meánphraghas €400,000 ar thithe do dhaoine atá ag iarraidh teach úr a cheannacht. Yesterday, the CSO reported that in the past...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What planet is the Tánaiste living on? He stood there and said the rate of increase of house prices is coming down. He should open his eyes. It is accelerating. It is increasing month-on-month. We have had ten months of house price increases. In the Tánaiste's constituency, house prices are €100,000 higher than when he took office just four years ago. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first- and full-year costs of reducing the first rate of USC from 0.5% to 0%, reducing the second rate of USC from 2% to 0% and increasing the threshold to the third rate of USC from €25,760 to €30,000. [22275/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first- and full-year costs of reducing the first rate of USC from 0.5% to 0%, reducing the second rate of USC from 2% to 1% percent and increasing the threshold to the third rate of USC from €25,760 to €27,880; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22276/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline any consent to settle provisions within insurance law, whereby insurers are required to seek an insured’s approval before settling a third-party claim, in the context of reports that insurers are settling claims for amounts and reasons that are disputed by the insured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22299/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (16 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 469 to 471, inclusive, of 16 April 2024, and the correspondence with Department officials supplied (details supplied), when a response to the questions submitted will be received. [22224/24]
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Government voted against it.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Government voted against the amendment.
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5: In page 16, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: "Designated housing projects 21. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage may designate in writing a housing project (in this Part referred to as a "designated housing project") where he or she is satisfied that the project contributes directly or indirectly, or is likely to contribute,...