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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach was also Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Less than 3% of the staff, six out of 211 whole-time equivalents in the Taoiseach's Department are working specifically on Brexit contingency planning. As we enter a period where the clock is running down on our nearest neighbours regarding its decision on whether to accept or reject the withdrawal agreement, we need to question whether that is the appropriate allocation of staff given some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In the same vein, the response of the Taoiseach earlier that this will be the best hospital and will last for 100 years is fine and great. We need the hospital and nobody objects to that but the issue here is the runaway cost. He described this project back in 2014-2015 as spectacular, and it will be spectacular when constructed. He said it would cost €650 million and would be fully...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We cannot catch any fish in Donegal.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. As outlined, the Taoiseach received the commission's fifth interim report in November. The commission has sought an extension until the end of March 2020 but the Taoiseach has not made a decision on granting that extension at this point in time. He suggests that the commission of investigation is likely to cost in excess of €30 million and I ask...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There is considerable concern among many parents about meningitis and the fact that a number of children - I understand it is three - have died in recent weeks as a result of contracting meningitis. We know from the programme for Government that there was an extended vaccination for meningitis B for children born after October 2016. for children born before that date, however, parents have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Ceann Comhairle asked for the Business Committee to discuss the issue Deputy Micheál Martin raised. The substantive issue is that we address this issue with seriousness-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----and urgency. I am asking for clarification that the proposal we made before the Business Committee, and that I make again, that the debate on the preparedness for a no-deal Brexit take place on Wednesday, will also be discussed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Not agreed. I wish to object to Wednesday's business. While we will have a briefing later from the Government on preparedness for Brexit in a no-deal scenario, and while there will be statements on Thursday with five minutes of questions from each grouping at the end, we have argued that these statements should take place tomorrow, Wednesday. A vote is to take place in the House of Commons...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. Our representative put forward the proposal that the debate should take place on Wednesday - I am sure the Ceann Comhairle is aware of this, although I am not sure whether he was at the meeting - but he argued that there should be more urgency than is being shown in the proposed business before us. That is why I rise today. We were not in a majority at that meeting. I am making the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: People want to know what their future holds in store. I argue that we should reconsider this, as should the Government because I believe it was the Government that objected to the holding of the debate tomorrow. The Government should show a sense of urgency-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----and we should have the debate tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, we have a trolley crisis, a recruitment and retention crisis and the spillover effect from that whereby numerous people are on waiting lists that are growing, month on month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Maybe they could tax the banks and that could pay for some of our nurses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Keep waving the flag for the ones with the golden spoon in their mouths.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The recruitment and retention crisis is very real. That is evident when one talks to front-line staff, people the Taoiseach blamed for causing the trolley crisis over the Christmas period. I am sure he got the wake-up call from all their tweets as they posted pictures of them working on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. The reality is that this is a very real crisis. There...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----to ensure that we deal with the situation whereby we have only one application for every four vacancies in the health service. The Taoiseach talked about inefficiencies. This is one of the greatest inefficiencies, that we are not staffing our health service properly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Before I begin, I take the opportunity to extend my deepest sympathy and those of my party colleagues to our comrade, Deputy David Cullinane, and the wider Cullinane family on the death of their mother Berna who is being laid to rest in Waterford. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis. In just under a fortnight's time, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Appeals Commission (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the Revenue Commissioners are of the view that section 949AG of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, prior to its deletion in the Finance Act 2018, had been used to impose an unintended and inappropriate administrative burden on the Tax Appeals Commission and Revenue Commissioners; if the Tax Appeal Commissioners have stated a position...