Results 3,381-3,400 of 35,549 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 21: In page 71, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(3) Section 481 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (2)(b), by the insertion of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (iv): "(v) a condition that the qualifying company shall, in respect of the qualifying film concerned, comply fully with the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The bombardment and total siege of Gaza in recent weeks has seen the death toll exceed 6,500 people. More than 17,000 are injured and the Palestinian ministry of health has officially declared the collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip. The people of Gaza face a humanitarian catastrophe. The call of the Taoiseach at today’s European Council meeting must be for an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Government's response to any of the crises that we point out to it is "but, but, but Sinn Féin". That is how the Government sums it up, that we have stopped all of this, that we are at fault for a housing crisis, despite the fact that the Tánaiste's partners in government have been in government for 12 years, and that Fianna Fáil-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ----- has supported the Government for seven years. The Tánaiste's partners in government have been in government for 12 years, and Fianna Fáil has supported the Government for the last seven years. The Tánaiste can have his head as far in the sand as he wants but there are nearly 13,000 people in emergency accommodation. He talks about home ownership. There is an entire...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ----- just in case the Tánaiste does not know this, has missed his targets on social and affordable housing every single year for the last four years. That is the reality we have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Am I wrong? Explain to me how I am wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Explain it to me. Did the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, meet the targets on social and affordable housing?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I am interested to hear how the Government met the targets on social and affordable housing. This will be very exciting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Fianna Fáil has made it worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Explain to me how I am wrong that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, missed his targets.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Tánaiste want me to whisper it to him? Explain to me how I am wrong.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has missed every target.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is all Sinn Féin's fault. The Government has missed every single target and it is making things worse. It is time for the Tánaiste to get his head out of the sand.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Níl dabht ar bith ann ach go bhfuil an ghéarchéim tithíochta ag dul in olcas lá i ndiaidh lae. Tá níos mó daoine óga anois ag maireachtáil sa bhaile lena dtuismitheoirí nó ag dul ar imirce thar sáile. Tá teip iomlán ar phlean tithíochta an Rialtais. Ní thabharfaidh ach athrú Rialtais dóchas do...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We have not.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on flood relief and flood defence schemes in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47026/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of mortgages eligible for the mortgage interest relief scheme announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47175/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of primary dwelling home mortgages with an outstanding balance of less than €80,000 at end-2022; and the estimated number of such mortgages that would otherwise have been eligible for the mortgage interest relief scheme announced in budget 2024, had the €80,000 outstanding balance limit not applied. [47177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown of the departmental allocation of €708 million allocated for the existing level of service in budget 2024, for example, demographics, PSP deal, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47182/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills who authorised and ordered an audit into increments payable to casual workers employed by educational training boards across the State; when the audit commenced; whether it has completed; what action was proposed as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47137/23]