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- Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: -----which is absolutely misleading. I will finish with this. All taxes go to the Central Fund, not towards specific measures or programmes. This can be done. There is a choice here tonight-----
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: -----to increase the price of home heating oil, or actually reduce it. Take the side of workers and families or take the side of the Government.
- Financial Resolution No. 2: Mineral Oils Tax (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1: To delete section 1(a) and substitute the following: “(a) by the substitution in paragraph (a) of “at any of the rates specified in paragraphs (b), (c), (ca), (caa), (caaa), (cb) and (d)” for “at any of the rates specified in paragraphs (b), (c), (ca) and (d),”. The Minister of State never lets us down; he is talking through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Fraser and I appreciate his attendance before this committee. As the Chairman and the previous speaker has said, it is really important that the work of these committees is not impeded or frustrated. It is disappointing that for the first time in as long as I am member of this committee, at well over a decade, we have had to seek compellability because another Secretary General...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That was a meeting. It was a formal meeting at that stage-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It was a formal meeting. Was it a meeting that was recorded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It was an arranged meeting as opposed to meeting somebody in the corridor and having a chat-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Was the purpose of the meeting to discuss Dr. Holohan's intentions for the future or what was the purpose of the meeting? Why did you arrange it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Were there any records, notes, minutes or any-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: No notes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. There was an arranged meeting that was entered into both of your diaries. I am sure both of you arranged a time to discuss Dr. Holohan's future intentions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: At that meeting, what did he indicate to you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Absolutely and I am only focusing on the process in terms of the secondment. At that point, he was indicating to you that he was looking at other options beyond CMO. Would that be correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: In the briefing or report that Mr. Robert Watt furnished to the Minister, he states the following: This followed on from initial discussions I had with the CMO in August 2021 regarding his future work plans. This involved the Secretary of the Government and myself, as Secretary General of the Department of Health. I find it hard not to read from that the suggestion that the three of...