Results 8,301-8,320 of 36,188 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: This issue was hammered out well in committee. The members of the Government are talking the talk in terms of the crisis in social housing and we are supposed to give the Government a bualadh bos because three years into its term of office it is recognising that it is a bad thing to keep social housing boarded up, rather than released in towns and villages throughout the State, and that we...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I will focus on amendment No. 19, but I also wish to refer to the issue of reporting on regional development. The Government's amendment is welcome. I would have liked the Government to go further with regard to what Deputy Deasy suggested. It is one thing to report but another to act. However, at least it gives those who wish to see balanced regional development the tools to argue the...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Pardon?
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: "Bejesus," is it?
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I did not know that was one of your words in your-----
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I did not know that. I have never actually seen that book, wherever it is. Perhaps you would circulate the words in it.
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am not even going to look for another adjective. It scares me that the Government would do what the previous Government did in 2009, which is to deplete the resources in the National Pensions Reserve Fund and invest them in broken banks. If one looks at the percentage returns the National Pensions Reserve Fund was securing for its investments, they were quite healthy at 6%, if memory...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Sometimes, as I listen to debates, I wonder what is the point of trying to convince Fine Gael that we should not use our assets to bail out broken banks. No matter what I or any other member of the Opposition say, it will have no effect. Fine Gael is ideologically wedded to supporting capital above citizens. We have seen what Fine Gael has done during the past three years. It has followed...
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: There must be a definition of "regional". One cannot report on a regional basis if one does not know what the region is.
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: What are they?
- National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 19:In page 42, to delete lines 19 to 39, and in page 43, to delete line 1.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to put the code of conduct on mortgage arrears into primary legislation. [30032/14]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 6: In page 13, after line 48, to insert the following:“(10) On receiving any application under this section the Minister for Justice and Equality shall cause the application to be published on the internet and in such other manner as he or she considers appropriate until a decision is made on the application.”.We are discussing amendments Nos. 6 and 7...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am not going to die in the ditch over them but I do not understand the reason they were not accepted. In my view these amendments make the section more transparent and will assist the Minister. It is quite interesting that this is the first time I have seen in a Bill the provision that requires the applicant for a licence to provide an e-mail address. If one wants to be a bookmaker and...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is it correct section 25 amends the opening times for bookies, allowing them to stay open until 10 p.m.?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: What are the current opening times?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is it likely this legislation will be passed before the summer recess?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, it does not have a problem with that timeline. However, problems arise if it is not passed after that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The Deputy has not made a bet in three years.