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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Little Angels School is a school in Donegal that caters for children with moderate, severe and profound learning disabilities. It has a new school that has not even been opened yet. There is a new school because the old one was not fit for purpose, but amazingly the new school is too small for the existing pupils. There are not enough classes in the new school and that is without even...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We need temporary accommodation on site for September and we need a long-term solution, namely, additional capacity in that school for all children in Donegal.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: So why are you doing this?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: At the end of January the Government gave its word on the floor of the Dáil that it would work with the Opposition to find a resolution to the impasse relating to the status of the Michael Lowry group of Independent TDs that would be acceptable to both Government and Opposition. It has gone back on its word now and has proposed to put a motion before the Dáil that puts Michael...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Taoiseach do what the combined Opposition leaders have asked of him? They have written to him and asked him to sit down to let us find a solution to this that is sensible, practical and common sense. The Government needs to show a bit of common sense on this issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: At least Fine Gael is honest about its intentions. It has been for over 20 years. When it produced its document, Beyond Neutrality, in its effort to dismantle neutrality, the Taoiseach described it as an out-of-touch ideological obsession. Fine Gael, in that policy document, described the Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil's approach as the nod-and-wink approach of signing up to initiatives...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach would not allow a free vote.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá sé iontach contúirteach agus gearr-radharcach deireadh a chur leis an nglas triarach, an triple lock. Is é seo an chéad chéim ag Fianna Fáil agus ag Fine Gael chun deireadh a chur le neodracht mhíleata na tíre seo. Beartas fadbhunaithe agus rathúil le blianta fada don tír seo é agus ní hé seo an t-am le dul leis an...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if passengers whose buses were cancelled as a result of recent snow are entitled to a refund if the bus company cancelled the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 295. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide information on the proposed local property tax Bill contained within the legislative Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9064/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 302. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 66 and 67 of 19 February 2025, the reason for the substantial increase in average duration of tax avoidance cases in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9266/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 303. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 66 and 67 of 19 February 2025, the number of tax avoidance cases that reach four years in duration since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9267/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 304. To ask the Minister for Finance if credit services firms that manage mortgages for investors are required to apply a comparable interest rate as the bank the mortgage was bought from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in Donegal (details supplied) will be repaid illness benefit that was paid to the wrong bank account; the steps his Department is taking to recover the money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9512/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to specify the level of priority being attached to the Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024 in the Government legislative programme; when we are likely to see the bill progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9515/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Expenditure (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2024 ACRES payment will issue for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9224/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (4 Mar 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 687. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 6 February 2025, if he is aware that the HSE has refused to provide the costs of consultancy contracts for 2023 and 2024 despite the fact that this information has been provided previously by the HSE and for the current year by other public bodies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9269/25]