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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is this Government has normalised child homelessness and that should never be accepted in this State. Is this the society we want to be? It is not. The two Ministers have been in government, as the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said, for just over three years now. Let us look at their record on housing. Since taking office, average rents have increased by 33%. That means the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is a clear message, if there ever was one, to workers and families that under this Government, in terms of housing, things will not get better. Indeed, they will get worse. Sinn Féin has set out a plan. We said very clearly that what should have been in this budget was the biggest State-supported construction of social, affordable and cost-rental houses in the history of the State,...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We need to increase the supply of affordable homes to rent and buy. For many years, Sinn Féin has also called for the introduction of a refundable tax credit to put one month's rent back into renters' pockets and for this to be introduced, crucially, alongside a three-year ban on rent increases. For years, this proposal was criticised time and again by the Government and by these...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: He has decided to put taxpayers' money into the pockets of landlords. You simply could not make this up. In this budget, the Government has provided nearly twice as much to landlords as it has to struggling renters. The Minister knows fine well, because the experts in his Department told him, that the vast majority of these landlords never even thought about leaving the rental market....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance what legislative instruments exist to allow local authorities to introduce a "tourist tax" as a revenue-raising initiative. [43744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures have been implemented to allow for the investigation of properties which may be liable for the vacant home tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43745/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many staff are employed in each local authority to investigate properties which may be liable for the vacant home tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many staff are employed in each local authority to investigate properties which may be liable for the derelict sites levy. [43748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the number of sites, per local authority, deemed currently liable for the derelict sites levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of income received by each local authority in 2022 as a result of the derelict sites levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43751/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of income collected in each local authority in 2022 as a result of NPPR charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43754/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the proposed housing development at Ardscoil Mhuire, Gweedore, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44025/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an assessment of needs for their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the parents of a child in Donegal (details supplied) can expect to receive services and support for their autistic child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43760/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 474. To ask the Minister for Health when a registration application with an organisation (details supplied) will be processed for a person in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43536/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 529. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive a date for an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43787/23]

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Bhille seo agus muid ag déileáil leis ar an Dara Chéim. Seo an Bille Airgeadais (Ráthaíochtaí Stáit, Cistí de chuid Forais Idirnáisiúnta Airgeadais agus Forálacha Ilghnéitheacha), 2023. Mar atá a fhios againn, tá an reachtaíocht seo de dhíth mar gheall ar an slad atá á...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (5 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I have been raising this now for a long time as households were thrown to the wolves, including by the Minister's party and Fine Gael. We now have mortgage prisoners who are facing interest rate hikes that simply do not exist in the other retail mortgage market. The Ministers were told this. My legislation, which would have prevented the sale of these loans to vulture funds, was blocked....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (5 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance his views, and the Department's analysis, of the capacity and number of borrowers eligible to switch from lenders to the mainstream mortgage market under the recently published eligibility criteria published by the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland and retail banking sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43138/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (5 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: On 4 August, I called on the Minister to convene a meeting of the Central Bank and the banking sector to chart a pathway for households whose mortgages were sold to vulture funds to return to the mainstream mortgage market. That meeting took place on the last day of that month but the pathway was not outlined. Instead we had an announcement after that. Can the Minister outline the measures...