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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. I have read the transcripts of the meeting. What I am saying is that we have two Ministers in with less than two weeks before the budget and at a time when less information than ever was provided to the Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in relation to the plans for the budget. There has never been less information ever in my time and I have been here for something like...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am not complaining about the Cathaoirleach. I am just saying that I would strongly advise next year not to schedule this meeting at the time of the voting block. This curtailed the committee and forced the Cathaoirleach to allow everybody to come in to a situation where they had to ask their questions in 90 seconds and allow 90 seconds for responses.

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá oibrithe agus teaghlaigh á lomadh ag praghsanna leictreachais atá ródhaor. Tá na praghsanna is airde againn san Aontas Eorpach. Níl a dhath feicthe againn ón Rialtas. Níl sé ag gníomhú ar chor ar bith le dul i ngleic leis na rudaí is cúis leis seo. Anois agus an méid is mó tithe riamh ar chúl lena gcuid...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It has been spent.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: She did.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There are record levels of electricity arrears. That is the response.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is the response.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There are record levels of electricity arrears.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Authorities (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance if the waiving of local authority section 48 development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann water and wastewater connection charges provided construction is completed prior to December 2026 if fully accounted for within the expenditure and revenue projections contained in the Annual Progress Report; if not, if additional resources will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Local Authorities (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 355. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is a requirement for the local authority to own the building they apply for the artist workspace scheme for; or if there is a requirement for the building to be leased for a certain period of time; whether Donegal county council have submitted an application to the scheme; if applications are still being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the waiving of local authority section 48 development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann water and wastewater connection charges provided construction is completed prior to December 2026 if fully accounted for within the expenditure and revenue projections contained in the Annual Progress Report; if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget Process (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated increase to the WFP threshold included in the base projections for Government expenditure contained in the APR and the Summer Economic Statement; to what level; if increases to thresholds are taken from ELS or new measures; the estimated additional cost of increasing WFP thresholds by 10% or €70.05; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting a home help package in Donegal, by area and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the options paper that will inform budgetary decisions in relation to further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50105/25]

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Déarfaidh mé cúpla focal san am atá agam. There is no doubt that the Government has mishandled migration, particularly international protection. In doing so, it has ignored and indeed antagonised communities and driven a wedge between people. Real damage has been done on the ground and it is going to take a long time to repair. It will not be the Government picking up...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: To add to the sentiments expressed earlier, there is no doubt serious sadness, shock and disbelief at the discovery of the remains in Donabate yesterday of the young boy, Daniel Aruebose. I think we all send our deepest condolences to everybody who loved Daniel. The community is grieving and everybody right across the island is horrified at what happened, and heartbroken. It is a very...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá praghsanna leictreachais le hardú arís agus tá sé seo chun níos mó ná 500,000 teaghlach a bhuaileadh. Is cinneadh uafásach é an cinneadh atá déanta ag Fine Gael agus ag Fianna Fáil na creidmheasa fuinnimh a tharraingt siar sa cháinaisnéis. Tá breis agus 300,000 teaghlach nach bhfuil ábalta a gcuid...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We did. We said-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Much of the area was covered by colleagues. I know some other members talked about how the profitability of the insurance companies had not changed, but it has changed and has changed dramatically. These reforms have absolutely worked, but they have worked for the insurance companies. Those companies have made a fortune, many millions, on the back of the reforms introduced in these Houses....