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

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when increments were last paid to casual workers employed by educational training boards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47138/23]

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

Pearse Doherty: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether increments will be paid in the future to casual workers employed by educational training boards; if so, whether they will be backdated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47139/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (26 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 285. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the departmental allocation of €708 million 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. [47181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection availing of international protection in County Donegal currently, broken down by townland, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46952/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (25 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 180. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of funding allocated to domestic violence services in Donegal for each of the years from 2019 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46821/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (25 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 181. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding allocated to drug addiction services in Donegal for each of the years from 2019 to 2024 on a per capita basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46822/23]

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear. I could not agree more with the sentiments of my colleague Deputy Cullinane. He has spoken to those on the front line right across the State, to understand the consequences of the Government's decision to deliberately underfund health. Those consequences are real. It will be heard in the stories that will unfold over the course of the next number of months. These are real...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This Finance (No. 2) Bill gives effect to a number of tax changes announced in budget 2024, in addition to a number of other important provisions and changes to our tax code. We cannot consider this legislation before setting out the context in which it has been introduced. Our economy has faced a number of inter-related shocks in recent years. We have seen an energy price shock; a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Speaking on local radio, Highland Radio, last week, one of the consultants at Letterkenny University Hospital stated the hospital has five intensive care beds, which is probably the number we needed about 20 years ago. A report done nearly a decade ago stated we needed over double that, yet that is still the position. The consultant explained what that means. When somebody is in a ward,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: God almighty, they want to meet the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I can only add to what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. It smacks of arrogance that the Minister, for two weeks in a row, has decided not to come before the Dáil and listen to what Deputy Mac Lochlainn and I have to say. It is not arrogance towards me or the Deputy. It is to the people of Donegal. It is to the people who tomorrow morning will still be in chairs or on trolleys in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This question is for the witnesses from Meta and Google. How much money have the companies made on these fraudulent ads in the last year? The companies are obviously a net beneficiary of this illegal activity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but people have told me that if someone puts up a post saying "free Palestine" it is withdrawn by Facebook, yet ads that scam people are still up on the site, so the company does benefit. Is it not a fact that the company benefits financially from fraudulent activity, scamming citizens across the State? Does the company have a number for how much revenue was taken in 2022 from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is not "there may be", there actually is a financial payment regarding sponsors ads. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does Meta have the actual number? The company has never calculated how much revenue comes in from fraudulent ads. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Is there any chance that the company might do so and provide the information to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. The company could do so I presume, at least for the ones the company knows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously it is a different jurisdiction but UK Finance represents 300 financial companies in Britain. It estimates that 61% of all authorised push payment fraud is connected to Meta and its online platforms, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Does Mr Ó Broin, accept those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is interesting because we had the banks before us. Maybe Mr. Milton could explain this to us. What channel do the banks have to report fraud on social media platforms?