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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: First, the Minister is now initiating a review we have been calling for for years. Second, the role these institutions are playing in new apartments being built is that they are purchasing the apartments. They are not just funding them. Both forward funding and forward purchasing exist, and what is happening in Ireland is the latter. These institutions are going into a contract and saying...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael has been in Government for 12 years.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Seriously. It is very hard to sit here and listen to this shit.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It has been 12 years.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has some neck. They are in Sydney because of his policies. He has some neck.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: There are 4,000 people going to sleep tonight in emergency accommodation. The Minister has been in Government 12 years. He has some neck to lecture me. There are 4,000 kids in emergency accommodation. Maybe the Minister could be a wee bit more humble.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: God help the Minister and God help them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I heard you.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Fianna Fáil voted against it-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true. Can I make this point-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Acting Chairman. The Minister's scaremongering tactic, and Fine Gael's tactic, in relation to Sinn Féin does not work. If anyone wants proof of that, I remind the Minister that we sat in this committee last year to deal with the Finance Bill 2021. I put forward the proposal for rent relief and said it would put €1,500 into the pockets of renters who were renting...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is not true.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am just making the point it is not true.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, I will be pressing the amendment and I make the point that the Minister knows that in our alternative budget for the end of this year there was a surplus. The only reason I interrupted the Minister the last time was that, in fairness to him, he likes to be accurate in relation to what he says, but sometimes he gets carried away with himself in his attacks of me. That is the point. We...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 49: In page 77, after line 32, to insert the following: "Report on restricting banks from carrying forward losses 31. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on restricting the banks from carrying forward losses against taxable profits in a manner which could result in many institutions...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 50: In page 77, after line 32, to insert the following: "Report on the treatment of Capital Gains Tax with respect to worker-owned cooperatives 31.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the treatment of Capital Gains Tax in instances where a company or shares of a company are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is not entitled to that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is almost a decade since the Tánaiste first promised to reduce waiting times for children with scoliosis. I have lost count of the number of times his Governments have made and repeatedly broken promises. According to Children's Health Ireland, CHI, 149 children with scoliosis or spina bifida have been waiting six months or more for surgery, with 117 of those waiting for more than a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If the Tánaiste thinks housing in Derry is similar to housing in Dublin, then he is delusional.