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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (2 Oct 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the Government has in place to address the large number of people in County Donegal on waiting lists for home support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52382/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Oct 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to correspondence regarding an application for special needs school transport for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52217/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cosaint Fostaíochta (1 Oct 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 262. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon mholadh aige maidir le cothromaíocht ó thaobh pinsin agus cearta fostaíochta de do na Cúntóirí Teanga; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [52257/25]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Agreed.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Why?

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Vótáil. Why? You want to keep the rip-off going, is that it? What bit did you not agree with?

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody who spoke in support of the motion. The Government does not have an amendment down. I do not know whether it is opposing the motion or whether it does not have any solutions. The one thing on which I will agree with the Minister of State is that, as he said, what he and the Government are doing is yielding results. He is absolutely spot on. The Government has made...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Of course I did not. When you go on the phone and start telling them this, that and the other, you get it reduced. Not everybody is doing that, however, and it should not be-----

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State had his speak. It should not be the policy of the Government that you should shop around. The job of government is to defend consumers. What has happened here-----

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----is as we and the Alliance for Insurance Reform told the Government, that unless it got a commitment from the industry, the industry would pocket the reforms. That is exactly what has happened. What we have got from this industry - and the Minister of State is absolutely blind to this, as is his Government - are bumper profits. These were reforms I championed, legislation I drafted and...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: In motor insurance, it is 8%. The Minister of State talks about Britain. Does he know what has happened there? Does he know what the ABI says about the 28,000 motor insurance policies it looks at every year? It has told us just in recent weeks that insurance has fallen 10%. What has happened under the Government's watch here? An 11.5% increase. People are getting ripped off left,...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We produced legislation, for God's sake.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We wrote the law.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: More profits for the companies; well done. None of it has been passed onto consumers.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Government have failed to end the rip-off when it comes to insurance costs; — the increasing cost of motor insurance is putting many people under severe pressure in a cost-of-living crisis; — the cost of motor insurance has increased at more than four times the general rate of inflation; — people are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is not on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: A Cheann Comhairle, the arrangements are not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You did not ask for a vote.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We are talking about people who may be attacked in the next while. All we are asking for is a bit of flexibility.