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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On the Tánaiste’s watch, the Irish Air Corps traffic control at Baldonnel is moving to five days per week. It does not have the personnel to provide full seven-day cover. The air traffic controllers based there manage military, helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. They also manage Garda aircraft. Garda leadership is now looking for alternatives because responding to crime, as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We want you to work together with us on this. You voted against us last night.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is time to get real. The ESRI, the Central Bank, the Secretary General of the Department of the environment, Uisce Éireann and the approved housing bodies - the list goes on and on - all say the Government is failing on the basic issues. As Deputy Ó Broin has rightly pointed out, Uisce Éireann has been looking for money for a year and a half. Across all of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The woman sitting beside you objected to 8,000 homes. Maybe have a word with her.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I have never objected to houses, but the Minister of State beside you objected to 8,000 homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: To add insult to injury, we have a person from an approved housing body, the largest in the State, taking to the national airwaves saying that 3,000 social and affordable houses will not be delivered as a result of red tape, bureaucracy and delays by the Minister and his Department.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I put it to the Tánaiste that the Government is going to miss its targets again. Does he accept that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: What does he say about the fact 3,000 social and affordable homes will not be delivered, as they should be delivered and as people want to deliver them, because of the delays and red tape in the Department?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I asked you twice whether you met the targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It has been 14 years and you have nothing to show for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Éireoidh teipeanna tithíochta an Rialtais níos measa mar níl sé in ann infreastruchtúr bunúsach a phleanáil agus a bhainistiú i gceart. Tá fadhbanna ann inár ngréasán uisce agus leictreachais ag cur moill ar na mílte tithe agus á gcur i mbaol. For years we have listened to the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Some inflation is absolutely beyond our control. Other high prices are as result of price gouging or Government failures. Our pillar banks had combined profits of €5 billion last year, much of that came from the fact homeowners and savers were short-changed. We have double digit rent increases. New rents outside of Dublin are rising by 9% with 12 counties experiencing double digit...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Yet it was proper for the Minister for Finance to sign off on the first piece of legislation he introduced, which was to give a big increase to junior Ministers and increase the number of super junior Ministers, which is something we are challenging in the courts. Inflation is also caused by the Government. When the Government decided to increase the carbon tax, it put up the price of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I do.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I have.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I absolutely-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No. I did not say that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The question I continue to raise relates to when the Government is going to deal with the issue of the costs that people are paying for motor insurance and home insurance and that sports groups, organisations, community groups and small businesses the length and breadth of this State are paying for public liability insurance. The profits being made by the industry are eye-watering. When...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (29 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The problem here - and this is not the first time I have highlighted it - is that I, on behalf of Sinn Féin and the Alliance for Insurance Reform, said we needed commitments from the insurance industry that if reforms were introduced, then premiums needed to be reduced. The Minister's former party leader, Leo Varadkar, gave headlines to the newspapers six or seven years ago to the...