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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (27 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the concerns of staff and the local community will be listened to; if she will reverse the decision to relocate the Donegal Education Centre from Donegal town to Letterkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action will be taken regarding the oversubscribing of a school (details supplied) in Letterkenny despite a new building recently being constructed; if any additional places can be provided to the school given the significant demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8543/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is nothing new there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith ag an gCeann Comhairle. It is now over four weeks since I put to the Taoiseach serious claims about Deputy Michael Lowry's evidence to the Moriarty tribunal. So much for the Deputy's huffing and puffing about coming before the Dáil and making a statement. We have not heard a peep from him since. He is one of yours, Taoiseach. He is a Government-supporting TD and one...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We will be waiting a wee while for those things.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the questions on Lowry.