Results 301-320 of 36,355 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and it was proposed that there would be a commemorative centre in the national museum for that year. That is nine years but nothing has been done. Are there any plans? Is there anything we can see? If there is, then please send them to this committee. From what we can see, there is no date to establish a national commemorative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: If the design team is working on updating the programme, then that means the team did very little ten years ago. How can an announcement be made that a commemorative centre will be built on the national monument for 2016 and now there is talk of a design team? What scuppered the project? Is there any understanding of what scuppered the project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I now question my faith in the OPW when it comes to the commercialisation of the GPO. Our history and culture must be protected. People really need to rally around because I am very concerned about what the Government plans to do, particularly in respect of the GPO. I appreciate that the Minister of State will get me the information and my invitation still stands for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: In fairness, the issue was not listed for me to answer today and I do not have a response.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of blood tests for Letterkenny University Hospital that are outsourced from March 2024; the cost of this outsourcing during this period; the cost of doing the same percentage of blood tests in-house over the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36245/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The reason this is happening is because the Government has turned its face against a cost-of-living package-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----because it thinks the cost-of-living crisis is over. We need a cost-of-living package and fees need to be reduced, not increased.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I just asked about fees.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I asked the Minister for clarity. Does anybody have clarity in respect of the question I asked?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Families are asking if the fees are going to cost €2,000 or €3,000 come September. The Minister went on to say that this was the way things were done but the Minister, Deputy Lawless, has made it very clear that fees will go up by €1,000. He said that if he did not have a cost-of-living package, he could not take the kinds of measure that were taken last year. There...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá cinneadh an Rialtais chun táillí coláiste a ardú €1,000 craiceáilte. Is feall scannalach é ar mhic léinn agus ar a muintir. Cuirfidh sé brú sa bhreis orthu fad agus atá siad ag streachailt leis an ghéarchéim chostas maireachtála. For months we have listened for months to the Government telling us how it has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the urgent need for housing in Gweedore and other Gaeltacht regions in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government has any plans to address the shortcomings of the enhanced defective block grant scheme which continue to have a significant impact on those affected by the defective concrete blocks crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35832/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if the vehicle classification and VRT calculation will be reviewed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35459/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the increased inconvenience placed on small businesses when paying their tax as a result of regulatory changes to the tax card payment service, which limits the amount that can be paid by Debit Card to €500; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35502/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance if Revenue can provide any assistance to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal with the transfer-of-residence registration of an imported vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward a service level agreement between the Central Bank and the credit union movement as discussed during the Credit Union (Amendment) Act 2023 legislative process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Credit Union Stabilisation Fund levy paid by credit unions; the amount that has been collected each year by the fund since its inception; his plans for the future of the levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35781/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Credit Institutions Resolution Fund levy paid by credit unions; the amount that has been collected each year by the fund since its inception, his plans for the future of the levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35784/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Regulations (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 271. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of the regulation of the buy-now, pay-later products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35785/25]