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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am only looking for the technical analysis. Maybe that is rare, but I wanted to tease out the case of groups of companies. That is allowed in the legislation, where it is a transfer as opposed to a sale.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That happens quite regularly where there is a small batching plant on the site of a larger development. The policy would cover the poured concrete that is going into the foundation, even though it was not sold.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The same reason that the Revenue Commissioners have captured that applies in the example I have, which is not about a developer but a company manufacturing pre-cast concrete. It is captured even though pre-cast concrete is excluded, since the material going into the moulds is now included. I have significant concerns about this. The witnesses are carrying out the policy of the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I know it was a decision for the Minister, but with respect to the Minister, who may prove me wrong, he is not an expert on autoclaved aerated concrete blocks or whatever else. He relies on the witnesses, as officials who have engaged with the Departments of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Environment, Climate and Communications, to make a recommendation to him. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is fine that work on the regulation is ongoing, but do the witnesses acknowledge or have information that the type of product we are talking about is light years ahead of traditional materials? Its U-values, soundproofing and other characteristics are all better. If one wants a passive house, this is the type of product that one would use. The evidence is there. The witnesses might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The fact of the matter is that if one were to build an apartment now, then instead of using an energy efficient pro-environment block one can use a precast, which is far more carbon intensive, polluting and destructive to the environment. The Department is making a conscious decision today to make it more expensive to use the block that is more environmentally friendly and exempts the other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Has consideration of the levy been completed or does the Department seek to increase it further to €80 million per annum because it is now no longer near that per annum?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Concrete Block Levy: Discussion (26 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Exactly. There are two companies, which will happen numerous times. I do not know if they are still operating but I know of a company that was doing that. If companies are supplying to the domestic market because they have their concrete wagons on-site, they will have a separate company set up. They are invoicing internally. Therefore, the concrete that is used on sills, lintels and...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Deputy O'Rourke for introducing this motion. I call on all Deputies to support it. The lack of reliable public transport in the north west means that households have fewer options for travel and are more dependent on their cars in order to access basic services and commute to and from work and school. This is even more stark now as the cost of running a car has shot up. This...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Táim buíoch as an deis seo labhairt ar an Bhille Airgeadais, 2022. There is no doubt but that our economy and society are faced with another crisis. Following on from the financial crisis, Brexit and a global pandemic, we have been thrust into an energy crisis that threatens living standards and will test the resilience of our economy and society. This is all set against a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 596. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway; if the referral is an emergency referral; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52816/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Island Communities (25 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the downgrading of health services on Arranmore island, for example the current community-registered nurse is not on the island full-time and there is no public health nurse, leading to people waiting longer for treatment and having to go to the mainland more often; his views on whether this is appropriate at a time when...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, published a report which found that only half of our sewage is being treated to EU standards and that over 2.5 million tonnes of raw sewage in 32 of our towns and villages is being pumped into our seas and rivers every year. Eight of those are in my home country. In 2015 I submitted a complaint to the European Commission about the State's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Why do we have a ban on others being disconnected?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: You have absolutely abandoned them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: You have abandoned them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: You have a guarantee that your electricity will not be disconnected, but 450,000 people have been abandoned by you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Some 450,000 households have been abandoned by your Government and you have the cheek here to smirk across the floor.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Tá an babhta is déanaí d’arduithe i bpraghsanna fuinnimh atá á fhógairt ag comhlachtaí fuinnimh ag cur brú millteanach airgeadais ar oibrithe agus ar theaghlaigh ar fud an Stáit. Sa chéad leath den bhliain seo, dícheanglaíodh leictreachas in os cionn 700 teaghlach agus gás in os cionn 300 teaghlach. Caithfidh an Rialtas...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister said the Government will look at this "if there are any gaps". Let me point out the gap. There are 450,000 households that the Government has abandoned. The Minister spoke about energy credits. They are welcome and they will be available to people but there is also a ban on disconnections for hundreds of thousands of people who use bill payment. Why is that? It is because...