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- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: We have had a complete reversal of all Labour Party principles. What it is doing is unbelievable.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Independent analysis and vandalising public services. That is what it stands for now.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste will get a good tax cut and a good pension increase, fair play to her. She has given herself that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Well done. Look after yourself and your buddies.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Back to Fianna Fáil policies.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It is the fault of the nurses and doctors.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: By cutting more taxes for the wealthy. Read the report of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. The Government is vandalising public services.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: The Government is also in favour of vandalising public services.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: It is in favour of more patients on trolleys.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to dissolve the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42050/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the estimated €230 million that will be available to the Exchequer on the dissolution of the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42051/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the drawdown to date by the Credit Union Restructuring Board; its estimated final drawdown, and the remaining funds available to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42136/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Restructuring (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding to date for the Credit Union Restructuring Board; the source of this funding, with each source's contribution specified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42137/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions subject to lending restrictions; the nature of these restrictions, by number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (26 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to current planning rules which allow for the exemption of small-scale domestic property extensions from acquiring planning permission prior to construction, if he will clarify if it is the case that this exemption does not extend to properties located within special areas of conservation, SAC; the options...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: I add my support to the amendment before us dealing with the pyrite issue. We know from replies to parliamentary questions that only 76 households have been excused from paying this levy, although 2,000 applied. The statistics demonstrate that fewer than 5% of these households have been successful in their application. It is well established that the scheme has been ineffective, to say the...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: How can the Minister of State say with a straight face that the Government is for equality and then justify the claim by saying that those in Government want to get people back into work? That has nothing to do with it. That is not an example of equality. The Government punishes people who may be out of work. The rationale is that the Government is for equality because if people get a job...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: Those measures simply do not stack up. How was the Government for equality when it cut supports for loan parents? How was that an equality measure? What was it that ticked inside the Minister of State and made him think that was a good equality measure? It seems those responsible saw all the reports relating to the challenges that lone parents face but decided to give it to them in the...
- Finance Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Pearse Doherty: If all of this is done, as the Minister of State suggests, in the way the amendment is tabled, one would simply accept what is here. Because we have debated this at length in budget after budget, and have been faced by regressive budgets from the Minister, his party and the Government, the Minister of State knows that equality budgeting is far removed from his ideological position. We have...