Results 15,481-15,500 of 35,894 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister not believe the best way to build an economy's resilience is by boosting its potential supply and also through public capital investment? That is the best way to mitigate the risks of any external shock, including Brexit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It is being increased from an historically low level. It is not just a case of starting to reach the European average or being a leader in terms of expenditure in capital in Europe. Over the past ten years we have had the lowest level of capital investment in Europe. When I was at school there was a sign with the seanfhocal, "Ní hé lá na gaoithe lá na scolb", which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I am speaking of real people. There are real people lying on trolleys today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I am pleading with the Minister to do the right thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: What charge did I make against the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: What charge did I make against the Minister? I asked him to invest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's policies created the crisis in health. It was a man-made disaster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's policies created the circumstances in which 10,000 people are without homes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: That is the reality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister wants to dehumanise all of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It is only one line. I am here to try to convince the Minister to use the resources available to us to deal with the crises we have. These crises are man-made. They are the result of Government policies. If the Minister is not hearing that and if it offends him that I name what is happening - that there are individuals in the circumstances I described - I am sorry he is offended but it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: There is a very cosy consensus on this matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I will continue to challenge the Minister's policy which results in those activities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister will continue to cause some of these crises.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: This morning, the Cabinet approved the publication of the progress and interim report of the scoping investigation being conducted by Dr. Scally into the CervicalCheck scandal. We are told that the now final report will be delayed by anything up to six weeks. We are also told in Dr. Scally's progress report that information he requested on a number of State agencies has only been provided...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department or the Central Bank has had with their British counterparts regarding the sale of a bank (details supplied) in view of the implications for another bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25255/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which a bank can cease providing banking services to a business; the opportunity such a business has to contest such a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25375/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is in receipt of email correspondence sent to him by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding the issue of release day allocations for teaching principals in addition to the remuneration and workload of such post holders; when the person can expect to receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24245/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (12 Jun 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 643. To ask the Minister for Health when a new scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance schemes will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24500/18]