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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 259. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for surgery at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10849/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (8 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to section 39 bodies in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11209/18]

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I think the Deputy is over time.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Does Deputy Donnelly really believe that an Executive will change the DUP's position on Brexit?

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: An Executive is going to change the DUP's position on Brexit - does Deputy Donnelly really believe that?

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: That is not what it stated.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It stated the DUP could not block it. The Deputy could read the text of the agreement.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: If he wants to be the voice of nationalists in the North, there is a by-election in West Tyrone and he can fight that election and if he wins it he can represent that community in Westminster.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Martin's approach is narrow-minded and unhelpful and though it is unsurprising it remains disappointing. I am sure that what has happened after many other speeches he has made recently in the House will happen again after tonight. His colleagues on the backbenches and some on the Front Bench will come to me and other members of our party and apologise and state Deputy Martin's views...

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I say to Deputy Martin and to others that we need to be constructive. The DUP is calling for a return to direct rule, a form of direct rule that was ended a generation ago and cannot be allowed to return. Direct rule is destructive. Direct rule ended with the Good Friday Agreement, which is the people's agreement. The Irish Government, the Tánaiste's Government, is a co-equal...

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Even Deputy Martin's former party leader is critical of his approach to the North.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy called for the institutions to be collapsed-----

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Martin will ignore that point.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am. Over the past 13 months, Sinn Féin has been involved in negotiations to implement previous agreements, secure the rights of citizens and re-establish the power-sharing Executive on the basis of equality and respect. We engaged in good faith at all times. We were proactive and we stretched ourselves in search of a positive outcome. We reached a draft agreement with the DUP...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Tá áthas orm a bheith ag caint ar an reachtaíocht seo. Cuirim fáilte roimh an reachtaíocht atá curtha os comhair an tí ag an Teachta Michael McGrath. I welcome the Bill and I commit that my party will work the Minister and Deputy Michael McGrath on Committee Stage to ensure it sees its way into law. My party...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: A Cheann Comhairle, on the same issue-----

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am trying to be helpful. I am looking for guidance here. We are being asked to vote that Thursday's business will be a Second Stage debate on the thirty-sixth amendment to the Constitution Bill.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am talking about the legislation to be discussed on Thursday.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We will be discussing this, with respect. We are going to vote on debating a Bill on Second Stage. The Taoiseach has already told us that there will be a special Cabinet meeting on the same day to consider the same Bill. It does not make much sense to vote to debate something that we know is not going to exist on Thursday. Can the Taoiseach give us some further information? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources (6 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Commissioner go dtí an coiste. The Commissioner made a number of comments to Deputy Paul Murphy about the direction of military spend and defence. He said that if Europe did not increase that type of spending, it would be in a dangerous position. What percentage of the budget is currently spent on that and, in his view, what increase is required to avoid...