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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I think the time allowed is two minutes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The time is allocated to the Opposition. It is two minutes and two minutes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister said that there are lots of considerations feeding into the final price that people pay at the pump. What he did not say was that nearly 60% of what people pay to fill up their car is going to the Revenue. It goes to the State because that is the level of tax that is being applied and the Minister's plan is to increase the tax. When people stop off at a petrol station in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: He will make the wrong decision on 1 August, if he does the same and he will make the wrong decision again on 1 October of he decides to do it for a third time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It needs to be scrapped and the Minister should indicate that today.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is the point. That is what one does.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, but-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will cancel the increases in excise duty on petrol and diesel scheduled for August and October of this year, given the cost-of-living pressures facing households, and their impact on trade for businesses in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: On 1 April, the Minister and the Government increased the level of excise duty on petrol and diesel. If the Minister gets away with this plan, this increase will be followed by two further tax increases, one in August and another in October. I am sure the Minister is aware that households are still facing a cost-of-living crisis. There is a widening gap between fuel prices North and South....
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is ridiculous.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is what the Government is offering.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Exactly. The Taoiseach should be here.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Ceann Comhairle has nailed his colours to the mast in relation to the Whips. All of our Whips represent our groupings and parties.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Well, the Ceann Comhairle did not say that. I am glad of the clarification.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 15. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on consideration of changes to legislation to address the inability of consumers to make complaints to the Financial and Services Pensions Ombudsman with respect to vulture funds as a result of gaps in their regulation. [15234/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department are considering increasing the rate of and threshold for the 10% stamp duty with respect to the bulk purchase of residential property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15235/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the deteriorating situation in Haiti and if he will support the humanitarian efforts in Haiti through both the Irish Aid programme and pooled funds such as the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. [15544/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15623/24]
- Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Your time is up, just like the Government's.