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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: My apologies, but not one penny went to the parents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh na scoláirí ó Chonamara atá anseo. Is deas an rud é go bhfuil daoine ag tabhairt cuairte ar Thithe an Oireachtais arís. Tá an costas maireachtála ag cur brú millteanach ar oibrithe agus teaghlaigh ar fud an Stáit ar bhonn laethúil. Ní chuireann aon rud béim níos mó ar an dúshlán...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We have been trying to get Governments to slash childcare fees for years. Let me put some of the facts here because the Minister spoke about delivering. In the past four years, half of which he has been in government and Deputy O'Gorman has been the Minister responsible, childcare fees in Dublin have increased by 20%. This is what the Government is delivering. It is not delivering the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They have been saying it for five years but the fees keep on going up.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the reduced rate of VAT at 9% applying to electricity and gas to 31 December 2022. [36925/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance he estimated cost of applying a reduced rate of VAT at 9% applying to electricity and gas from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023. [36926/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying a reduced rate of VAT at 9% applying to electricity and gas from 1 January 2023 to 12 October 2023. [36927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying a reduced rate of VAT at 9% applying to electricity and gas from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023. [36928/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of maintaining the existing reduced rates of excise duty total mineral oil tax on petrol and diesel from 13 October 2022 to 31 December 2022. [36929/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying the existing reduced rates of excise duty total mineral oil tax on petrol and diesel from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023, 12 October 2023 and 31 December 2023 respectively. [36930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying reduced rates of excise duty total mineral oil tax on petrol and diesel to €359 per 1,000 litres and €330 per 1,000 litres, respectively, from 13 October 2022 to 31 December 2022. [36932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying reduced rates of excise duty total mineral oil tax on petrol and diesel to €359 per 1,000 litres and €330 per 1,000 litres, respectively, from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023, 12 October 2023 and 31 December 2023. [36933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying excise duty at a rate of €0 per 1,000 litres on home heating oil from 30 September 2022 to 31 December 2022. [36934/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying excise duty at a rate of €0 per 1,000 litres on home heating oil from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023, 12 October 2023 and 31 December 2023, respectively. [36935/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I was a teller for the last vote. Countless homeowners will be locked out of this scheme, this legislation is defective and the Government has failed to see sense and support this amendment. Therefore I am asking that we take this opportunity to do the right thing on behalf of all of the families in the Gallery and that we have a vote other than by electronic means.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: This is the core of this issue. This is what the demand is and this was the chant from tens of thousands of people who came to the streets more than a year ago. It is to ensure that people are able to have their homes remediated. I am sure the Minister probably believes his own spin or some of the stuff he said earlier that this is 100% up to €420,000. That is simply not true. If...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I want to add my support and that of my party to this amendment. I am minded that we who are privileged to be elected to this House are messengers of the people. This is not our amendment. This is not my amendment, and while my name and those of Deputies Ó Broin, Conway-Walsh, Mac Lochlainn, along with other colleagues are on it, this is the people's amendment. These 80 amendments...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has abandoned them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that have been put in place for Junior Certificate students who test positive for Covid-19 during exams; if they may re-sit exams or receive a predictive result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36506/22]