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Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin has tabled a motion tonight after people have queued for food parcels today. As parents are sitting down wondering how they will feed their kids supper and what is in store tomorrow and next week, they are watching this debate hoping the Government will recognise their hardships and plight. The Minister, who is the Minister for Social Protection not just for the Fine Gael...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Talk to some of your own Ministers about some of that; some of your former Ministers.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If there was ever a lesson in how out of touch you are, Heather, that was it. Fair play to you. Not a mention of the people at the food banks. An ivory tower politician.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the cost-of-living crisis continues to put workers and families under significant financial pressure and there is a growing urgency to ensure supports are adequate, available, and accessible; and — emergency action must be taken to give workers and families a much-needed break from the cost-of-living crisis;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to the location of a new veterinary school; and his views on whether any newly established courses will be internationally accredited. [6885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline available funding for retail food businesses to install energy saving measures and energy saving equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7327/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline available funding for businesses carrying out the installation of energy saving measures and energy saving equipment in retail food businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7328/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the excise rate, and its components, applied to natural gas for household use, in terms of both euros per gigajoule and per MWH at GCV, in the years 2016 to 2022 inclusive; and the scheduled rates for 2023 to 2025 inclusive. [6992/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum excise rate that may be applied to natural gas for household use, in terms of both euros per gigajoule and per MWH at GCV, under the Energy Tax Directive. [6993/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance if any measures are in place to require payment service providers to reimburse victims of authorised push payment fraud or scams; if any code is in place regarding reimbursement or compensation by payment service providers to victims of authorised push payment fraud or scams; if the Central Bank of Ireland has regulatory powers under legislation to require...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 599. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for endocrinology appointments in Letterkenny University Hospital per month for each of the years 2019 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6611/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What about those you handed over to the vultures?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You handed these families to the vultures. What are you going to do?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: You will do nothing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It was the Central Bank that reduced interest rates.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Tá costais morgáiste ardaithe ag na mílte úinéirí tí mar thoradh ar ardú na rátaí úis atá feicthe le cúpla mí anuas. Éireoidh sé níos measa sna míonna atá amach romhainn de réir mar a mhéadaíonn rátaí trasna an bhoird agus de réir mar a bhíonn oibrithe agus...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: When the Minister's party clubbed with Fine Gael to prevent legislation to ensure these loans were not sold to the vulture funds, it gave commitments that people would be no worse off. How naive was that? How false a promise was that? These individuals are paying thousands and thousands of euro more as a result of their mortgages being sold to a vulture fund. I gave the example of Rachel....