Results 121-140 of 36,355 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister reviews ISIF's investment strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is a simple thing. Do not fund the genocide

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister reviews ISIF's investment strategy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am not letting him away with that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should refocus.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to square the circle. When he said he rejects the notion that Ireland was funding or complicit in the funding of the genocide, given that these were advertised as war bonds to support the war effort in what we all in this House call not a war but a genocide, does the Minister not acknowledge there was hard cash and profiteering done on the back of the genocide? The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: What analysis, if any, has been carried out by the Minister or his Department in relation to the dividends forgone as a result of the State selling its shares in the AIB since 2022? As the Minister knows, I argued against the sale of those shareholdings in which at one point in time we had 71% of the shares. What dividend are we losing as a result of the fact that we now do not hold shares...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is no doubt that we will not benefit from hundreds of millions of euro in dividends each year. The Minister can make the point of €273 million of a dividend last year on the basis of a 19% shareholding. Obviously, if we had the 71% that would be significantly increased in a year where the bank paid out close to a billion euro on dividends. This was one of the most financially...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is not just the Minister who is at a loss. The taxpayer is at a loss because of his decision. The reality is, and I asked whether his Department did any analysis of this, one of the major issues in terms of share price is the profitability of a bank or of a company. We can see the profitability of AIB and Bank of Ireland. The bank was nationalised at a time when it was making losses...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to address the increased cost of insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39747/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I have raised this issue with the Minister time and time again and I will continue raising it because people are, to use that phrase again, being ripped off. There is no doubt about it. It is not good enough that the Government is doing nothing about it. Insurance companies are boasting profit margins far and above the European average, far and above what they said they would target if...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The response of the Minister of State is disappointing. Until the problem is diagnosed, we are not going to get a solution. I have said this before. It is not just the Minister of State. It must be the Department because his predecessors have done the same thing. That is cheerleading for the industry. The industry is making profits that are way above the norm. Motor insurance is up 10%...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State can splice and dice this any way. Everybody out there knows the cost of insurance is going up. The alliance is saying it. The reforms have been pocketed by the industry. Let us look at Liberty Insurance. Its profits are at 13%. This industry came before the House of the Oireachtas. It begged us to do the reforms. We put it to insurance companies and asked what...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: How come they are earning more than twice what they told us they would target if we brought in the reforms? The reason is that they have pocketed all the reforms-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----pushed up the premiums and the Government is doing nothing but cheerleading in its speaking notes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This is an issue I have raised with the Minister numerous times. Along with the former Minister, Michael McGrath, he was a cheerleader for the selling off of these loans to the vulture funds. He obstructed and blocked a Bill that would have prevented it from happening. All of these individuals are now paying more interest than they would be if they were with a main-street lender, even for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister made the point that he voted against or obstructed the passage of my Bill because he thought it was not in the Government's interest. He is 100% right. He took the side of the banks and the vulture funds. It was not in their interest for that Bill to go through. I will tell the Minister whose interest the Bill was in. It was in the interest of the woman who spoke to me who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, it is.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Was it right for those people?