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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional revenue that would be raised by each extra one percentage point on the vacant site levy. [21616/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday the British Secretary of State for Defence, Penny Mordaunt, announced measures to afford British soldiers and veterans protection from prosecution of crimes. Initial reports of this plan indicated that these laws would not be extended to the North but that has since changed. Speaking last night, Ms Mordaunt said that she thinks that the plans should cover the North. Any attempt...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With every week that passes, the housing crisis continues to spiral out of control. We see rents and house prices rising, social housing need continuing to grow and the number of children and adults in emergency accommodation at record levels. By every meaningful measure, the Government's housing plan is failing, yet every time a Deputy raises the issue of the housing crisis, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste has listed a number of measures, but even by the Government's own inadequate targets, it is already failing to meet those targets by 3,000 homes. This just shows how out of touch this Government is and how it fails to grasp the reality of the housing crisis unfolding and engulfing and weighing down so heavily on so many families right across the State. It is a Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----developing policies for people who are struggling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is that those on the Government benches will never have to struggle. I ask every one of those heckling me to put himself or herself in the shoes of the mother paying €1,500 in rent per month, paying some of the highest childcare costs in the European Union, being fleeced-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----by her insurance company and trying to prepare for her daughter's First Holy Communion at the weekend.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Would a three-year rent freeze and a rent relief of one month's rent each year for the next three years not be beneficial to her? Would it not be appropriate to give her that safety net and legislate to ensure she and her family, her children, will not be evicted into homelessness?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This is the type of action we need, not heckling from the Government benches.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The situation is bad because a third of the members of Government are landlords.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Childcare Education and Training Scheme (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the childcare supports available to a person (details supplied) participating in an ETB course in circumstances in which there are no available places in the only local registered childcare facility and no other registered childcare providers exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21227/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Health the status of talks being held between the HSE and the Rehab Group over funding; his plans to avoid the possible withdrawal of services for persons with disabilities, the contracts for the provision of which are held by the charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21190/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend high-speed fibre broadband to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21203/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the childcare supports available to a person (details supplied) participating in an ETB course in circumstances in which there are no available places in the only local registered childcare facility and no other registered childcare providers exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21228/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to put in place a redress scheme or grant scheme for residents in County Donegal affected by problems in concrete blocks affected by Muscovite mica; the steps taken to put in place such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21202/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is an absolute disgrace that we must again take to our feet because of this very simple demand. There are many burning issues across the State and this should not be one of them. This is about a group of almost 500 workers who are asking for the right to be heard. This is not a dispute about pay or conditions; it is about the simple right to be heard. Sinn Féin has published...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is saying this is not true. I will tell him something. A real estate investment trust, REIT, buying up apartments, snatching them away from families who want to put a roof over their heads, does not have to pay a penny of tax on the income, or any of the 33% capital gains tax, CGT, that everyone else has to pay on the gains they make. These companies are getting away...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Seanad has adjourned, by the way.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an díospóireacht anseo anocht agus go háirithe roimh an Bhille atá curtha chun tosaigh ag na Teachtaí Ó Broin agus Adams. Tá ardmholadh tuilte acu mar seo Bille fíorthábhachtach do mhuintir na hÉireann ina gcuirfidh sé cearta do thithíochta i mBunreacht na hÉireann, agus tá na cearta sin de...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Teaghaise) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to a Home) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State does not like to hear the truth. Every year, we show the Government how it can deliver more houses.