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- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Of course, we do.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (12 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: 59. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by NABCO and ICSH for investment in social housing which would support jobs; and if he is considering any proposals to undertake an investment package in social housing which would increase housing stock, improve conditions and create jobs. [27058/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Funding (12 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the other sources of funding that are available to Irish Water apart from the National Pension Reserve Fund, public Exchequer and borrowing on the commercial market; and the way it will access this funding. [28067/13]
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The legislation is written and the Deputy knows there is a bar on Opposition legislation that will impose a financial cost on the State.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The legislation is there.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: They are published.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: We wrote the legislation.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The only party that can introduce that Bill is the Government.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: That is nonsense.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Your party designed and negotiated it with the troika.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Your party put the tax into the troika programme. That is where they were led up the garden path.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Deputy has started pulling that one - "as a socialist".
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Why did your leader call it perverse?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Surprise, surprise.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister will always get a job as a stand-up comedian.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Free health, free education, free septic tanks, free school books. The Minister does not want to hear.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: You are hilarious.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Is that what you told Deputy Kenny when he said it was morally unjust or when you told Deputy Gilmore to grow up and stop playing silly games?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Sinn Féin is as aware as anybody that we are living in very difficult times. We have shown in each of our alternative budgets how we would do things differently and how we would face the challenges that the State faces in a fairer way. We know that there is no easy way out of the crisis, but the tax on the family home is not part of...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (11 Jun 2013)
Pearse Doherty: 514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to an incident whereby a 245 foot wind turbine (details supplied) in County Donegal collapsed during high winds; if he intends to order a public investigation into this matter; if he intends to introduce legislation which makes provision for a minimum 1km set back distance for wind...