Results 41-60 of 1,256 for long speaker:Pearse Doherty

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I want to be associated with those comments. These have been three long days. Thankfully, we have had the practice in the past number of years not to have a guillotine. There was a kind of guillotine this year for reasons there had to be and we facilitated that. The committee has worked well for the past three days in ensuring that all sections, as best as we could, were dealt with and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...is not in the information the delegates are giving us. There have been numerous speakers, but what we are looking for concerns the last quarter. There was a regulatory requirement on AIB to offer long-term sustainable solutions by the end of June this year. We are now into the fifth speaker and we still do not have a full breakdown of the offers it has made. What we have been able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market: Engagement with KBC (1 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: ...have a preference for loan sales. We have a preference for sustainably reducing non-performing loans. ... Banks need to engage with their customers in a sensible and proactive manner with a view to finding long-term solutions that work for both parties. I am of the view that is not happening. As a bank that is leaving the market, does KBC see this suite of repayment arrangements as...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I raise the issue of services for children with autism in particular and the matter of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit places in schools and the supports therein. There are long waiting lists and people are obliged to travel long distances to access units. In some cases, there are simply no available places for children while other schools are hesitant about opening ASD units at all...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am the proposer of three amendments which you will probably reject when I push them to a vote. These policies and the decisions which are taken here in the bowels of Leinster House have real and long-term consequences for people. Over a series of years I have sat in this committee and policy after policy has resulted in this. It has pushed house prices beyond the reach of ordinary...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Pearse Doherty: This is national politics. It is the biggest decision taken by the State in a long time. Question, "That the Order of Business be agreed to", put and declared carried.

Finance Bill 2011: Committee Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I will conclude very shortly. I understand there is no time limit on Committee Stage as long as I speak to the amendment.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (20 Jul 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the X-ray service in Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal, will be continued; if he will present a long-term plan for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21617/11]

Written Answers — Offshore Islands: Offshore Islands (17 Jul 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the proposed helipad for Toraigh Island, County Donegal; if funding will be made available for this long awaited infrastructure for the island community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35252/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Banking Sector (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if a study has been undertaken to ascertain the long term economic value of current shares held by the State in Irish banks. [39237/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (18 Sep 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation for the long delay in a person (details supplied) in Dublin receiving medical treatment for a prolapse disk. [37696/12]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Statistics (2 Oct 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of people in long term unemployment as a percentage of the workforce and in nominal terms on an annual basis from 1992 to 2011. [41526/12]

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, Minister, you are around here for long enough-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (5 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the benefits of replacing the promissory notes extant at the Educational Building Society, part of the Allied Irish Banks group, with long term government bonds. [11350/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Guidelines (17 Jul 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 25. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether greater regulation of the wind energy sector is needed to attract more long-term investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35023/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Bank of Ireland (4 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Some processes started earlier but in June there were 6,267, which the bank claims is 53%. Half of all of the long-term solutions being put forward by the bank could potentially lead to repossession. Legal letters were sent that threaten repossession.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank (4 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, that is my question. Mr. Brown mentioned there are 4,036 account holders in long-term arrangements with the bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank (4 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Would a sizeable proportion of Ulster Bank's long-term arrangements include interest-only?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Ulster Bank (4 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Is the interest rate reduction for the long term? It is not for the duration of the loan but is only for part of the term.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (26 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 53. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of older persons and others requiring long-term residential care who are hospital in-patients ready for discharge but awaiting residential places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40035/13]