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Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Eight years. Well done.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: What about McBrearty?

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Seriously. Come on, Timmy.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I am 40 now.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The irony is that we are talking about a smear campaign against Sergeant McCabe.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: There are many reasons not to have confidence in the Government and I could start by talking about the children waiting in agony for months with scoliosis or the fact that there were more than 300 patients on hospital trollies today. We could talk about the handling by the Government of NAMA, the flawed sale of Project Eagle and the report that the PAC will make an adverse finding against...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I had to take a Fianna Fáil Government to court and I won because it denied me the opportunity to stand before the people of Donegal.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It prevented a by-election four times and denied the people of Donegal their constitutional rights.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That is-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister will have to do better if he is looking for the leadership.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The motion is the Government's. It is exactly as is.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Come on. Failure, failure, failure.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, it is a Government motion.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The party that embraces corruption.

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: In recent weeks, we saw the House of Commons's committee of experts giving the plain and unvarnished legal facts about what Brexit from the customs union really means. It means a border in our country unless we do something about it. This weekend in my county, communities from Lifford and Bridgend will demand as Border communities that there be no return to the hard Border that so many of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus a chomhghleacaithe. Tá cúpla ceist agam anseo. We have figures for the schemes that will progress and the schemes that are targeted. As anybody who has been following this for a couple of years, the same schemes appear to be on the same lists year after year. I was looking at the list from 2015, which in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Why should we be more convinced by the Minister of State's statement today than by the inaccurate statements of the then Minister of State with responsibility for OPW, Deputy Simon Harris, in 2015 or 2016? We know the scheme has not commenced and has not yet commenced at this point in time. The same schemes have been on the list of years. The people of Clare are sick to the teeth of it....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State guaranteeing thie committee and, more importantly, the people in the area in question that the south Ennis scheme will begin construction in 2017?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Is that a guarantee?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Were all schemes scheduled to be completed in 2016 actually completed? We are dealing with Estimates based on the type of work anticipated. Accordingly, moneys are allocated by the House for the type of work involved. Were all schemes due to be completed in 2016 completed? These schemes would have been undertaken on the Minister of State's watch and he would have told the committee they...