Results 32,041-32,060 of 35,932 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: Yesterday two truly shocking documents landed on my desk. They also landed on the desk of every other Deputy in this House and those of Senators. The first of these documents includes the Central Bank's residential mortgage arrears and repossessions statistics for the third quarter of 2012, while the second is the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s response to budget 2013. Anybody who...
- Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Act 2010: Motion (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: In his statement, the Minister pointed out how successful the banks have been in deleveraging, attracting and retaining deposits, as well as how well recapitalised they are and how they have been able to access moneys in the international funding markets without the guarantee. All of this is true and some of it is to be welcomed. The Minister, however, did not address how those who fund the...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We want to object to the way the business for Monday's sitting has been ordered. We have no objection to the House sitting on Monday, Indeed Sinn Féin called for such a sitting in order that an additional debate on budgetary matters might take place. The proposal before the House indicates that Monday's sitting will be mostly taken up by the debate on the expert group report. People...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: There are very-----
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: -----few families which are doubled over with laughter in their homes this morning.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: They are reeling from the fact that the Social Welfare Bill has been passed by this House and that the Government plans to ram through, with little or no debate, a family home tax which is going to impose a further burden on them.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: We have heard about Deputies wrestling with their consciences in respect of the cuts to child benefit and the respite care grant. The families to which I refer are going to be expected to pay the family home tax.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: What is happening is absolutely appalling. There should be a sitting on Monday and we should take the opportunity it offers to debate the family home tax. In addition, there should be an Order of Business, Leaders' Questions, a Topical Issue Debate and Question Time. That is the form a proper sitting should take. What we will probably get is another glib response from the Minister, Deputy...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It is absolutely appalling that the same families that were hit by the reduction of €325 in the respite care grant will be hit by a property tax if this legislation is passed next Tuesday. The one in four households that cannot pay their mortgages and the families already in poverty will be slapped with this tax by the Labour Party and Fine Gael. It is another broken promise. The...
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: This is not the way to deal with legislation. Members of the Labour Party and Fine Gael should stand up and say this is not acceptable on their watch.
- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
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- Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I object to proposal No. 3. It is unacceptable that the family home tax legislation is to be rammed through the Dáil, with the debate on Second Stage to conclude by 6 p.m. and all other Stages to be taken on Tuesday. Even though there is an additional sitting next Monday, the Government does not see fit to allow this House to debate one of the most draconian pieces of legislation we...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I do not support term limits. The credit union movement is a democratic movement. In the same way that this institution, a democratic one, does not have term limits, credit unions should not have any either. The issues is dealt with and we lost the debate but I welcome the fact that the Minister of State has extended the term limits. I welcome the exclusion, waiver or whatever the...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It allows for the Central Bank asking the credit union to appoint an additional person and the term limits are waived.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: It deals with the term limits issue in one way. I will discuss this matter further when we come to that group of amendments. However, it does not deal with the issue of a voluntary worker or a person working for another credit union. The issue of term limits could also apply in this instance. I suggest a waiver if the Minister of State is not willing to remove it altogether. Amendment...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I am not at all happy with amendments Nos. 35 and 95 for two reasons. The first of these reasons relates to the general exclusion under which prevents voluntary assistants in credit unions from serving on the boards of those credit unions. We have been around the houses in respect of this matter on a number of occasions and I will not repeat the arguments put forward previously. This is...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I am sorry for that.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: That is fine.
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I take this opportunity to acknowledge the fact that this section has been changed to a substantial degree. There is no doubt about that. Consequently, many of the concerns that were voiced have been met. However, there is an issue outstanding in respect of the voluntary aspect. I will not rehash the debates in which we have engaged on this matter. We will monitor what occurs and if...
- Credit Union Bill 2012: From the Seanad (13 Dec 2012)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State for responding positively to the request to put this amendment in the Bill, as tabled by me on Committee and Report Stages. I would have preferred a more explicit statement on State-guaranteed public projects but I recognise the wording presented by the Minister of State does not prohibit this, so I find it acceptable. As the Bill passes into law, I...