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- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: No.
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: We discussed the issue of fuel poverty on Committee Stage. I agree with Deputy Michael McGrath that this is a poverty issue. Some people will not be impacted on by this increase in the price of a bag of coal or a bale of briquettes, but others will. They do not have a range of options such as being able to fill their tank with oil and turn on the heating. As I said at the finance...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 26:In page 125, to delete lines 15 to 51.I appreciate that the Minister of State is filling in for the Minister for Finance. I had hoped the Minister would be in the Chamber, but I understand he cannot be here. The figures for car sales came out last month. The sector is in serious difficulty, as the figures show. The amendment concerns increases in VRT imposed...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State have the price tag?
- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: We wish.
- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I honestly do not know how to respond to some of the comments made by Deputy Lawlor. I am not sure whether his leg injury went to his head, but it seriously affected the information he provided here today.
- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: We put down this motion to bring to the attention of Government something it has failed to see, because its members have their heads so far stuck in the sand that they fail to realise there is a massive unemployment crisis. Despite the Government being two years in office and despite all its cheerleaders coming in to pump out the party line, it has failed to make any impact whatsoever on the...
- Job Creation and Economic Growth: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Some 87,000 left this State last year and the same number left the year before. That is a failure of political leadership and a failure of every Member in the House who supports a Government with its head stuck in the sand. I got a letter today from an individual who talked about the misery of being unemployed and about having to turn to professional counselling services to try to scrape...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 5:In page 27, to delete lines 8 to 26.This is connected to the issue we discussed regarding the pensions. We thrashed this issue out on Committee Stage but I raise it again because we should sound alarm bells about what the Minister is doing regarding the approved minimum retirement fund and the requirement to have a pension income of €18,000, which the Minister...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, those of us engaged in debates on Committee and Report Stages research the amendments that are tabled and establish what is the voting position of our parties. When the relevant debate commences, we are informed that certain amendments are out of order. There must be a better way to inform Deputies that amendments have been ruled out of order in order that they will not...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I spoke about this matter at length on Committee Stage. I am concerned about some of the aspects of the relevant section. As stated on the earlier amendment, the universal social charge, USC, will not apply and, therefore, people with AVCs are not the poorest in society. These individuals have pensions and they have been able to top them up from their incomes. Basically, the Minister is...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: I will be brief. This measure is far from fair. There are other options the Minister should consider to save €40 million and which have been presented to him by our party and others. He referred to the period of 26 weeks paid leave, but I point out to him that if this section was not enacted, women to whom I referred on maternity leave after 1 July this year would be the...
- Finance Bill 2013: Report Stage (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom a rá, mar nach raibh an t-Aire i láthair fá choinne dheireadh Chéim an Choiste an lá deireannach, go raibh cruinniú iontach maith againn ar feadh dhá lá agus go rabhmar ábalta ár gcuid oibre a chríochnú taobh istigh den téarma ama a bhí leagtha síos. Bhí sin maith....
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Bhí an Taoiseach ag tagairt níos luaithe don reachtaíocht a thugann cosaint do dhaoine atá ina gcónaí i dteach s'acu féin. Dúirt sé nach féidir leis na bainc an teach a bhaint díobh ach ní raibh sé ceart san méid a bhí sé ag rá. The Taoiseach referred to the her Family Home Protection Act. Given that he...
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: It concerns promised legislation.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill and the Family Home Protection Act.
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The legislation to which I referred was introduced in 1976 and does not give any protection in the repossession of family homes. It give protection to-----
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: Will the land and conveyancing law reform (amendment) Bill provide protection for anyone who genuinely cannot pay a mortgage to ensure the bank cannot repossess it?
- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach is misguided about the legislation which dates back nearly 37 years.