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Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Then again, the Government does not agree with buying these properties because its message to the developers is that it will rent them off them and pay their mortgages over the next ten years. Then, they can sell them off when times get good again for a higher price. The nonsense of knocking down houses is another attempt to restart the property boom which fed the Minister of State's party's...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The people in the unfinished housing estates do not have the luxury Ministers have of a chauffeur-driven car, a €200,000 pay cheque every year and a sizeable pension. Instead, they must put up with overflowing sewage, untarred roads, out-of-order street lights and estates falling apart. The Minister of State should not be condescending in claiming this report shows matters are not as bad...

Seanad: National Housing Development Survey Report: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Pearse Doherty: For the Minister of State to claim the situation with unfinished estates is not as bad as suggested and that a committee will sort it out is not good enough.

Seanad: Diabetes Treatment and Management: Motion. (27 Oct 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I will use the opportunity to add to what has been said in support of the motion. It is welcome that the focus is being placed on the issue of diabetes tonight and it is appropriate and opportune that we are having this debate. I do not have diabetes, but my nephew who is my godson was diagnosed with it a number of days ago. Therefore, I am aware of the difficulty it causes for him as a...

Seanad: Palliative Care Services (3 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Yesterday morning, the people of County Donegal were shocked by what they learned on Highland Radio, the local radio station. The shock did not come from the news that former Deputy James McDaid had resigned from the Dáil but from an announcement by Dr. Donal Martin, the consultant in palliative medicine at Donegal Hospice, in which he informed the...

Seanad: Palliative Care Services (3 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Minister of State's statement that no decision has been made to suppress posts. I understand Dr. Donal Martin's statement on Highland Radio yesterday was made on the basis that the HSE had decided not to fill the vacancy. The clock is ticking. The post has not been advertised and a replacement needs to be put in place if we are to work within the guidelines of the National...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I want to make a point on the decision made by the Government last night to appeal to the Supreme Court the judgment secured in the High Court on behalf of the people of Donegal South-West. I do not agree with statements today made by the Labour Party and by other Opposition parties on local radio stations that there was no choice for the Government but to appeal it to the Supreme Court. It...

Stability and the Budgetary Process: Motion (30 Nov 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Ní bheidh Sinn Féin ag tabhairt tacaíocht don rún atá os comhair an Tí anocht. In áit sin, cuirfimid ár leasú féin - go scorfar an Dáil agus go gcuirfear an buiséad ar athló - chun tosaigh. Is mian liom an leasú a mholadh anois. Tá mé iontach bróduil go bhfuil mé anseo mar Teachta Dála i gcuideachta mo chomhghleacaithe, na Teachtaí amháin atá ina bhfíor Freasúra...

Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: IRISH.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: This budget is a disgrace. It is a full-frontal attack on the lowest income earners, those who are unemployed and those who are dependent on social welfare. What it amounts to is a recipe for economic suicide. It is another deflationary budget being brought in by this Government. It is being brought in by a Government which claims to act in the national interest, by a political party which...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: Mary, you are on much more than that and you should keep your mouth closed for just a couple of seconds.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister, Deputy Coughlan, should keep her mouth closed while I am speaking because she is on much more than the €92,000-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----that Deputies get.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The token gesture that is being taken by Ministers in this budget does not go anywhere near far enough. The Government is cutting the liveilhoods of people who are trying to get on in this State. What have they done? What have the public sector workers done to the Government that it will sack 9,500 of them - 4,150 from health, 1,023 gardaí who will lose their jobs by the end of next year,...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: The Government is willing to sell this budget. It is willing to sell the Irish people down the tubes-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: -----for a casino in Tipperary and a nursing home in Kerry. Shame on the Government.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: It is the reality.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that I did not name the gombeen Deputies and there may be questions over who they are but the point stands. The fact is we can no longer afford this type of politics. We simply cannot afford it. We need a new type of politics. During the course of writing the budget speech, did the Minister for Finance ever consider what it would mean to ordinary people on the street who are...