Results 7,921-7,940 of 35,658 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State does not understand his own Bill.
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Jesus Christ. One is APR and the other is simple interest. You do not even know what you are talking about.
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is embarrassing.
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State's officials are cringing. It is embarrassing. Oh my God.
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: APR, which is what exists already at 288%, and simple interest, which is in the Bill at 48%, cannot be compared. They are simply different ways of calculating interest. To make that suggestion is cringeworthy. The Minister of State should correct the record of the House.
- Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. The issue of moneylenders has concerned me for many years. Indeed, it is more than nine years ago now since I accompanied a group of whistleblowers, people who were employed by the largest moneylender in the State at the time, to bring evidence to the Central Bank relating to the practices of moneylenders in this State. The...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: What was already post-pandemic inflation has now risen even further as a result of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Key commodity prices are skyrocketing, such as for wheat and palm oil, on the global markets and this will impact on Irish households. Figures released by the Central Statistics Office on the increase in food prices in the past year show that bread has increased by 8%, and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We need to deal with the right here and the right now. Let me explain to the Minister. People are ordering fill up home heating oil now. In Dublin they are being charged €1,840. I have seen other costs of close to €2,000. In January it was €750 or about that. This is more than €1,000 more. These families have not budgeted for that. It is easy for the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Government has decided to do nothing on home heating oil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Aréir, thug an Rialtas isteach laghdú, mar a dtugadh air, ar pheitreal agus ar dhíosal agus an cháin atá á ghearradh orthu sin ach ag dul trasna aon stáisiún peitril ar maidin, ní thabharfadh aon duine faoi deara é, mar go bhfuil an praghas sa chuid is mó de na stáisiúin inniu níos daoire ná mar a bhí sé ar...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has engaged with stakeholders in relation to a review of the minimum qualifications required to become a special needs assistant; the steps her Department has taken in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6353/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing excise levied against petrol, diesel and home heating oil by 10 cents per litre, disaggregated by fuel type. [13696/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (10 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised through excise levied against petrol, diesel and home heating, disaggregated by fuel type, in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. [13697/22]
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 4: In Schedule 2, inserted by paragraph (1), by the substitution of the following for the row dated 1 May 2022: 1 May 2022 €359.00 €465.98 €330.00 €405.38 €405.38 €0.00 €141.12 €138.17 €130.52 €66.93 €9.36...
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Instead of what the Government is doing, increasing excise on home heating oil, the amendment would remove excise on home heating oil completely. Government Deputies should make sure that they can tell their constituents what they will vote against in a few minutes. They should make sure, when those constituents come to complain to them, to look them in the eye and say they could have done...
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is withdrawn.
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In Schedule 2, inserted by paragraph (1), by the substitution of the following for the row dated 1 April 2022: 1 April 2022 €359 €465.98 €330.00 €405.38 €405.38 €0.00 €118.01 €120.55 €118.27 €54.68 €9.36
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 2: In Schedule 2, inserted by paragraph (1), by the substitution of the following for the row dated 10 March 2022: 10 March 2022 €359.00 €474.11 €330.00 €413.51 €413.51 €0.00 €118.01 €120.55 €118.27 €54.68 ...
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, earlier today we had a bit of an issue with our networks going down. Such an event causes pressure on days like this when we are trying to introduce a financial resolution late in a day with limited deadlines for amendments. Obviously we then put serious pressure on staff in the Bills Office to turn them into properly drafted amendments. There is an issue with the...
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I am not sure that ten minutes will allow the Bills Office to deal with the issue. If it is not, we can suspend for a further ten minutes.