Results 27,401-27,420 of 35,894 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: What is the rental price of a room in Dublin currently?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is that the average price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: If the average price is €200 per month in Dublin, anybody charging the average price cannot avail of the rent-a-room scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: If somebody is renting a room all year round, he or she will be above the threshold.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: That is my point. The point is that if somebody is a tenant all year round and paying the average rent, the scheme is not available to the landlord.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Simon has presented figures on the Government's estimate of 4,500 units from NAMA which indicate that 518 of them were transferred to social housing. This demonstrates the painfully slow rate of progress that has been made on an issue we have been discussing for quite some time. We are probably watching the wind-down of NAMA as we speak, even though that is not the best outcome. In terms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I always enjoy the statistics that illustrate just how far Ireland really is from being a low tax economy and a good table was provided that supports this as it shows the billions of euro required from additional taxes. Refundable tax credits present a reverse option because they mean less income for the State from tax. Have the criteria for refundable tax credits that were published by the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is there any other jurisdiction that provides a refundable tax credit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am familiar with the history. The courts have rightly enforced on the HSE that it end the exploitation of its home care workers through the use of zero-hour contracts, which followed on from a successful campaign by SIPTU in that regard. In my view, HSE home care workers are no longer being exploited. Are the 6,000 Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, staff still being exploited...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: In Mr. Harty's view private providers, whether providing applies or oranges, are unsure of how many customers will come across their thresholds and that until such time as they can be satisfied with the situation in terms of supply and demand zero-hour contracts are necessary. However, they are exploitative to workers. That is the reason the High Court ruled against the HSE. This is wrong....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that but I need to move on. Mr. Hanan spoke about an adequate minimum income for all and put forward a proposal in this regard for this year. Perhaps he would elaborate on what in his view is an adequate minimum income and how it would be structured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: It is sensible to allow for the required level to be reached over a particular number of years. I thank the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for its presentation. Reference was made in the presentation to water poverty and the introduction next year of water charges disproportionately hitting low income groups. Reference was also made to the introduction of measures to protect low income...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I thank Ms O'Sullivan for her excellent presentation on behalf of FLAC. I agree with her remarks in regard to how the budgetary process is dealt with. When is FLAC's shadow report expected to be published? Ms O'Sullivan might also comment on the important or unimportance of the move in the Houses of the Oireachtas to equality budgeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I thank our guests for their very detailed submissions. They contain a wealth of information and statistics and are presented in a very understandable fashion. Irish Rural Link's submission contains a number of interesting proposals. I wish to focus, however, on the issue of a stimulus for villages and towns. The submission refers to the closure of Garda stations, post offices and banks....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: What vehicle would facilitate this? Would it be a particular Department or an agency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: One of Irish Rural Link's other proposals - this is also contained in a number of the other submissions made to the committee - relates to the cut the Government introduced last year in respect of the telephone allowance. Almost one year on, how big an issue is that for Mr. Claffey's organisation? I note Irish Rural Link's submission contains a call for a reversal of the Government's decision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: One of my constituents recently contacted me via Facebook and informed me that their parent is elderly, vulnerable and lives in an isolated area. The elderly individual in question was affected by the cut to the telephone allowance but has accessed a 24-7 alarm service from the FOLD Ireland housing association. I understand FOLD Ireland has written to all of its customers in the Twenty-six...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: In the context of the HCCI's submission, this committee is always interested when someone puts forward proposals relating to savings. The suggestion is made that the private sector could deliver home-care packages for 30% less than the public sector. In addition, the submission states that the system should be loosened up, that there should be more transparency and that the private sector...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Am I correct in stating that sector in which the organisation Mr. Harty represents operates is not yet regulated by the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The HCCI claims that its members can, on average, provide home help services 30% cheaper than the HSE. How is that possible?