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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Governor and deputy governor to the committee. Picking up on the point on cryptocurrencies or crypto, the president of the ECB made an address recently in which she said cryptocurrencies "are certainly being used, as we speak, as a way to circumvent the sanctions that have been decided by many countries around the world against Russia". Is it Mr. Makhlouf's view that crypto is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank our guests for their attendance. Mr. Makhlouf and our other guests referred to the changes that are taking place at a financial level. There has been significant focus at this meeting, perhaps more so than most, on cryptocurrencies and all the rest, but the ECB itself is developing its e-euro or digital euro. I know there are suggestions the deposits could be limited to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is that separate to the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust, CCRT?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is not connected to this Bill at all; it is just a facility.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: If the Minister of State is going to table an amendment on Report Stage, can the note be submitted to us beforehand?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I acknowledge that the Minister has spoken with the Secretary of State but we need this raised at the highest level. We need the Taoiseach to lift the phone to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as we requested last week. We need to use our diplomatic muscle internationally on this. I also have concerns that section 81 of the Bill breaches the common travel area provision because it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Common Travel Area (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Our party leader, Mary Lou McDonald, raised this issue with the Taoiseach last week. It is something I have been raising here since last year, because this has been an issue of real concern. Given that the House of Commons has overturned the amendment to the legislation made by the House of Lords, the situation now is that a Polish person living in Lifford and having to travel across the...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That it is necessary to bring such a motion before the House tells its own story, the story of how this Government and previous Governments have failed to prioritise children's disability services. The Government and the HSE are required by law, as Deputy Cullinane said, and by decency to protect the rights of children with disabilities. The motion calls on the Government to fulfil the law,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing excise duty on home heating oil to €0 per 1,000 litres to the end of August 2022 and the end of December 2022 respectively. [15953/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 261. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum levels of excise duty that may apply to petrol, diesel and home heating oil respectively in accordance with the EU Energy Directive; the current rates that apply to each; and the estimated cost of reducing each to the minimum allowable levels to end of August 2022 and the end of December 2022 respectively. [15954/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of communications he or his Department have had with the European Commission with respect to the rate of VAT applied to fuels and household energy bills since 1 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15956/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 360. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Armagh before the travel date of 19 April 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15852/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided with respect to the employment wage subsidy scheme for 2022; the level of funding that has been drawn down to date; if her Department has revised the level of funding that will be required under the scheme in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15955/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The task force has not met since November.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is sitting on its hands. The task force has not met for months.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: There are hundreds of elderly patients lying on trolleys. Why is this not an emergency?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Minister is not answering the question. Hundreds of elderly patients lying on trolleys for more than a day and the Government task force has not met for months.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Last month, in excess of 1,400 patients over the age of 75 waited for more than 24 hours in emergency departments before getting a hospital bed. That was up from 1,100 in January. This is an appalling way to treat elderly citizens of this State. In 2015, when a 100-year-old woman was left on a trolley for 24 hours, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil both said it was unacceptable. In 2018, the...