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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: There are so many waiting on the list that cannot even see the professional to get into the bed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Tá fearg an phobail intuigthe mar go bhfuil an Rialtas seo ag caitheamh €9 milliún ar phúitsí gutháin in áit tacaíocht mheabhairshláinte do pháistí. Tá daoine óga ar fud na tíre seo ag caoineadh amach ar sheirbhísí cearta agus ba cheart an t-airgead seo a athdháileadh ar na seirbhísí sin gan...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste said it is despicable and disgraceful to conflate the €9 million the Government is wasting on mobile phone pouches with mental health. He should talk to his deputy leader. In respect of CAMHS mroe generally, we want to reduce waiting lists. They are coming down but not enough. Referrals are increasing signficantly. Some 225,000 appointments for children and...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the projected impact of BEPS pillar one and how it is accounted for in the revenue for each year between 2025 to 2030 in the economic and fiscal outlook presented on Budget day. [40773/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Schemes (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if businesses that have cases ongoing in relation to rates revaluation, but are tax-compliant, will be excluded from the energy subsidy scheme announced as part of Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40757/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 309. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40855/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: To stay on that theme, the Central Bank has now divested from all companies that operate in the occupied territories. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. Four of those were Israeli banks, were they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will the witnesses outline the Central Bank's rationale for that decision? It was not forced to take it. It was not a legislative issue. I welcome the decision, obviously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I welcome that and thank Mr. Madouros for acknowledging that the questioning in this committee, including my own, has led to this. This is a positive outcome and the Central Bank needs to be acknowledged in relation to that. It is to be hoped the NTMA will follow suit and divest from the rest of its holdings in companies involved in the occupied territories. However, it leads me to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I understand this prospectus does not say that, but does Mr. Makhlouf accept that Israel itself is marketing these as war bonds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: If Mr. Makhlouf or any of his colleagues opens their mobile phone and goes to israelbonds.com, the front page is very clear about supporting the war effort by buying Israeli bonds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. Is it correct that Ireland is the home country for Israeli bonds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That allows people in Germany and Spain to purchase these bonds because Ireland is the home country and we are part of the European Union.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Did anybody in the Central Bank reach out to Israel after Britain left the EU and therefore could not be the home country for these bonds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Makhlouf check in terms of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Mr. Makhlouf has said very clearly that his hands are tied. He did not use those words but there is a legal responsibility on the Central Bank to authorise the sale of these bonds through the Central Bank in Ireland, as the home country, by approving the prospectus. Is that correct?