Results 3,501-3,520 of 36,054 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister voted against it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Minister and his Government shamefully voted against Sinn Féin's motion to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court for the war crimes and crimes against humanity and genocide that we are seeing in Gaza over the past month. This is as the bombs continue to rain down on the people of Gaza. This is as we continue to see infants, babies, dying in hospitals in Gaza...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister, Deputy McGrath, accept the Government's targets are woefully inadequate? Will he accept it needs to do far more and listen to what Sinn Féin is saying? We are not talking about hundreds. We need 4,000 vacant and derelict homes brought back into housing stock every year for the next number of years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Ar fud an Stáit, inár gcathracha, ár mbailte agus ár sráidbhailte, tá daoine ró-eolach ar an bhfadhb ó thaobh tithíochta foilmhe agus tréigthe. Léiríonn sonraí atá eisithe ag an Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta nach bhfuil ach 21 deontas tarraingthe anuas faoin deontas athchóirithe do...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: This scheme was announced a year and a half ago in the middle of a housing crisis and, let me remind the Minister, at a time when house prices have continued to rise across the State, a time when rents in my own county and many other counties have increased by double digits - by 20% in my county - and a time when we have the highest ever levels of homelessness. A year and a half on, in the...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Coláistí Samhraidh (16 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nár íocadh go fóill na táillí atá ag dul do mhná tí i dtaca le mic léinn a d’fhan leo i mí Lúnasa, céard is cúis leis an moill, agus cathain a íocfar iad; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [50435/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Bombs are raining down.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Unbelievable
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I will just pick up on the point that was made to the Chair. He talked about the previous calculations of ELS, which was made up of different components. They were set out in the summer economic statement and then the Department found out there were more demands on the ELS. Is that the correct position?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: In 2021 the mid-term expenditure report outlined the mid-term expenditure strategy. Is that not the case? That report outlined that ELS would be calculated as 3% of current core expenditure. Is that not the case?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: And this year?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: It is 2.3%.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I am not asking about new budget measures. I am asking about the ELS. There was a rule of thumb in the Department-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: We will pick this up after the vote. There was a rule of thumb that ELS, as a percentage of core expenditure, would be around 3%. It dropped significantly this year in budget 2024; it is 2.3% of current core expenditure.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: And below what the strategy pointed out, which was that 3% is required. Some have argued that is even too low.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Have we reached that level in the past two years?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The witnesses were saying that the difference between what they outlined in the summer economic statement, which was half a billion euro more in ELS, was because they go into negotiations with the Department. They find out - voilà - they got their figures wrong, are half a million better off, and the Minister has half a billion euro for new measures. It is because of negotiations.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Existing Levels of Service Costs: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Kinnane accept that the Department has, every year for the past three years, got the figure of the ELS dramatically and spectacularly wrong in the documents it is publishing, which are not just for the benefit of this House but also as part of the European budgetary cycle.