Results 4,761-4,780 of 36,118 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: We know the Government has targeted children and families through cutting child care benefit, taxing maternity benefit and increasing college fees.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: All these budgetary measures have reduced peoples ability to pay their mortgages. This needs to be dealt with in a holistic approach. The banks need to be forced to do the right thing. I have documents, which I released last week, which show what the banks are doing to the buy-to-let sector. The banks are telling borrowers that if they speak about arrangements or even tell that they are...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: There is no transparency in the Minister's approach to mortgage resolutions. Will he accept that his budgetary position of picking the pockets of people struggling to pay their mortgages is making the crisis worse?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Yet, it cannot do anything.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: It is not independent agency, it is just supervisory. What we called for was an independent credit agency. The Minister should not misquote me.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Central Bank is a supervisory agency.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: It is not about taxing the unemployed.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Government has promised to bring forward legislation to cut the pay of public sector workers, including gardaí, nurses and firefighters. All front-line workers will face mandatory pay cuts if they do not sign up to the Croke Park deal. Ministers have made this threat repeatedly for several weeks and we know public sector workers will be considering the matter. It is clear that the...
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I am speaking about the threat made by several Ministers to cut wages in the public sector.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: There is a threat to introduce legislation. Is legislation being promised to cut the pay of senior bankers? Does the Minister think it acceptable that the CEO of Bank of Ireland, Mr. Richie Boucher, would still be earning €612,000, even if he succumbed to the request to cut his pay by 10%? Why is the Government treating senior bankers with kid gloves, while taking the hammer to...
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: With respect, I asked the Minister whether he was willing to impose the same threat to cut bankers' pay as he was to impose legislation to cut pay in the public sector.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister completely dodged that question.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I spoke about similarities, but there is no similarity in the Government's approach. It is stating to public sector workers that it will introduce legislation to cut their pay if they do not sign up to the deal, whereas the bankers are asked to reduce their payroll costs and how they do it is up to them.
- Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: It does not matter that they are earning €400,000 or €500,000.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for his change in policy regarding claiming travel expenses for self-employed persons who travel to their place of work in the Cork region; and the reason this policy change has been backdated to 2008. [13466/13]
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Last night, every voting Member of the Cypriot Parliament rejected the demands of the troika and the Eurogroup. To them I say, "Well done". Despite being a small, partitioned island with a population of just over 1 million people, approximately Munster's population, it sent out a clear signal to the effect that it would not be pushed around. I refer the Minister to the President of...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The bullies got carried away with themselves. We are now in a farcical situation, in that a eurozone country cannot even re-open its banks. Depositors in many European states are afraid because the line has been crossed by the Eurogroup, in that levies can be imposed on depositors. The Irish Government should not have signed up to this blackmail. For a country such as ours, the...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: How can the Government argue for the retroactive recapitalisation of our banks - we want the €30 billion that we pumped into the pillar banks back - with any legitimacy if we have just agreed that there will not be a separation of sovereign and banking debt in Cyprus and that the Cypriot people will bear the brunt? Does it not make a mockery of the Government's position? How can we...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Cyprus deals in the euro. Last June, there was a seismic shift, as this Government called it, in terms of separating sovereign debt and banking debt. Cypriot banks need billions of euro. This is why the bailout is necessary. It has been agreed that the ESM will be the vehicle to bail out eurozone banks. We are hopeful about getting some of our money back because the ESM did not exist...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: -----additional austerity for the Cypriot people and the raiding of bank savings. Does this not make a fool out of the Government's position? If a small nation is asked to take the same measures that we were forced to take a number of years ago, how can we legitimately argue for the retroactive recapitalisation of our banks?