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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passports will issue for children (details supplied) in County Donegal in time for a travel date of 14 February 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4331/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment will commence for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4379/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Maybe Deputy Conway-Walsh can ask a question after I ask these questions.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am conscious that we have to finish at 5 p.m. but I did interrupt the Deputy. I have two brief questions. I will return to issues that I have raised with the Minister of State for a number of years. There are flooding issues in Donegal that are part of the overall Estimates issue. The first relates to Castlefin. The Minister of State is familiar with this. I have raised it. Castlefin...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We are glad to see the Minister of State back.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State meet councillors when he is there?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Donegal is a big county. I have not even touched on Donegal town and there are other flood relief schemes. For Burnfoot, the commitment is to meet elected representatives in the electoral area, is that right?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State keep me informed when he has an indication of when he can do that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will talk to our Whip, who is very interested in getting the Minister of State up to Burnfoot. You never know what could happen.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the Department will make contact. That is what we are looking at. We need to look to see that the next storm - God knows when it will come - does not impact on those floods if they can be prevented. I am conscious there are a lot of delays in rolling out these schemes at different stages. Burnfoot is a good example of delays. I think everybody was up at the time Burnfoot...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Íontach maith.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is day 116 of Israel's brutal, indiscriminate and merciless war against the people of Gaza. It is a bombardment that has stolen the lives of men, women and children with the Israeli war machine and its Government killing more than 26,000 civilians. More than 18,000 of them are women and children. Some 1.9 million people have been displaced with those who have so far survived this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, told RTÉ that the defective concrete block grant is taking hold across the affected region. This will come as a big surprise to affected homeowners in my county of Donegal, and in Mayo, Clare and elsewhere. Figures released by the Minister last week to Deputy Ó Broin flatly contacted his claim. To date, just 54 homes have received...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I have the figures. It is not working.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Government will miss its target again.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I did mention that it was a new house and I talked about an average three-bedroom house, so let us be clear about that. I also said that it is unacceptable. I genuinely believe that it is unacceptable that a person has to earn €127,000 to buy a new, average three-bedroom house in this city. It is unacceptable that a person has to earn more than €100,000 to buy in Cork where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the good news overnight of the DUP's decision to end its boycott of the institutions. I hope we will now see the executive, the assembly and the North-South institutions up and running before long. It is long overdue, as I am sure all of us in this House can agree. Tá tithe de dhíth ag daoine ar phraghas réasúnta a cheannach ná a chíosú. Mar...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Finance how the 10% stamp duty applicable with respect to the purchase of ten or more relevant residential units applies to forward funding agreements and forward purchase agreements, respectively. [3757/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 17 January 2024, his Department’s understanding of the discrepancy between the 395 properties with respect to which the ten percent stamp duty was payable in 2022 and figures from the Central Statistics Office which indicate that 2,053 houses were purchased by Finance and Insurance Real Estate sectors in...