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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (25 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of implementing a PRSI rebate of 2.25 percent on all weekly wages below €735 for PRSI class A only; assuming a 2.25 percent rebate for the weekly wage equivalent to the full-time weekly wage of minimum wage workers and the rebate tapering off until it is at 0% for employees on a weekly wage of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (25 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer of implementing in full the TB eradication programme in 2026; the additional cost of phasing it in over three years in 2026, 2027 and 2028; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50857/25]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As was mentioned, overruns this year have amounted to what is projected to be €4.6 billion. Over €3 billion of that has already materialised. Is there a breakdown of how much of that €4.6 billion overrun that is expected was planned, for example through Cabinet decisions?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Was it a Government decision to increase capital expenditure mid-year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: How much of it was based on a Government decision?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Was all of that planned?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: What about the €1.4 billion that is projected as an overrun?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister expect that number is accurate?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: What is the problem that the Minister's colleague has with managing the budget? When we look at the budget, we are all here to look at what is going to happen in terms of new measures. New measures of €3 billion have been announced, but there is an overrun of 50% in unplanned expenditure. That diminishes the budget in reality when the Government is not able to control the public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister is responsible for the Department of reform. Does he take no responsibility for allowing expenditure to go 50% over what was planned?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: In regard to tax, three measures are proposed. The Minister has been on the record about them. There are changes to the renter's tax credit, so that will all have to go into the base next year-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Can I make a point of order? I have been a member of this committee previously and I am substitute today. I have never seen such a short committee in all my time here, two weeks before the budget. This is at a time when the Government has given less information than ever before in relation to the published documentation. As somebody who was involved in the terms of reference of setting up...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I know, I am just making a broader point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Why could this meeting not go on for another half an hour, or three quarters of an hour?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The voting block was supposed to be later on, so Ministers, I presume, were supposed to be in the Chamber voting, right? The voting block is now finished.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I do not know why we just did not extend the time. This is the budgetary oversight. It is unbelievable that this meeting was curtailed in the way it was and that we could not even get into the information. This is the first time ever that a surplus has not been provided. It is the first time ever that the amount of money that is being provided in the budget in terms of new measures has...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is 90 seconds for the response as well unless the Cathaoirleach wants someone to just talk for three minutes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. I have read the transcripts of the meeting. What I am saying is that we have two Ministers in with less than two weeks before the budget and at a time when less information than ever was provided to the Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in relation to the plans for the budget. There has never been less information ever in my time and I have been here for something like...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am not complaining about the Cathaoirleach. I am just saying that I would strongly advise next year not to schedule this meeting at the time of the voting block. This curtailed the committee and forced the Cathaoirleach to allow everybody to come in to a situation where they had to ask their questions in 90 seconds and allow 90 seconds for responses.

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá oibrithe agus teaghlaigh á lomadh ag praghsanna leictreachais atá ródhaor. Tá na praghsanna is airde againn san Aontas Eorpach. Níl a dhath feicthe againn ón Rialtas. Níl sé ag gníomhú ar chor ar bith le dul i ngleic leis na rudaí is cúis leis seo. Anois agus an méid is mó tithe riamh ar chúl lena gcuid...