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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 810. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an urgent appointment with the CDNT; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16791/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 817. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware of a promise made by her predecessor at a visit to a disability services provider (details supplied) in June 2023 to fund €200,000 for adult day care services and €150,000 to fund respite services, if there is any plan to fulfil this promise; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I raised the issue of the Raphoe community playgroup a number of times last year. I had commitments from the Minister that funding would be available. The Tánaiste met the group. We were told funding would be available. It applied for the funding it was told to apply for but it has not been granted the funding. It has written to the Tánaiste and he has responded that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Chuala muid ó Donald Trump aréir go mbeidh sé ag cur taraifí i bhfeidhm ar fud an domhain. Is polasaí gan tuiscint é sin a ndéanfaidh earraí níos costasaí do mhuintir na Stát Aontaithe agus a mbeidh impleachtaí aige sa Stát seo agus ar fud na hEorpa fosta. Last night, we were subjected to US trade aggression. To add insult to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that the North-South Ministerial Council is awaiting confirmation from the Government. This is important because there will be cross-cutting in terms of agriculture, finance, the economy and jobs. We need the type of all-Ireland approach that we saw during the Brexit negotiations in a very clear and effective way. I agree with the Tánaiste's points about Trump and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We discovered during the election period that many of the Minister's colleagues, maybe himself included, went out and argued that there were going to be 40,000 houses delivered last year, which we know was a big lie because the Department of Finance had provided an assessment to the then Minister before the election that that was not possible. Indeed, there was a risk of fewer being built...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Dáil be given some clarity as to the Minister for Finance's position? Does he agree with his Cabinet colleague that banks should lend more to developers on the basis that the developers would have less equity? That is the proposal that has been made. It seems a bit hare-brained and Celtic tiger era, but it is not the first time we have seen something like it. We deserve...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister support the proposal or not?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is still not clear. Does the Minister support the proposal?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline any engagement he has had with the Central Bank on tax incentives and other demand-side measures for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16504/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: What engagement has the Minister had with the Central Bank regarding tax incentives and other demand-side measures for housing and will he make a statement on the matter, particularly in light of what appears to be the Governor of the Central Bank pouring cold water on the latest apparently back-of-the-envelope policy on housing from the Minister for housing? It is reported that the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to protect mortgage prisoners from extortionately high mortgage interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16503/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The scandal of selling off mortgages to vulture funds has never been addressed. Just this week, the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, FSPO, legislation passing through the Seanad is finally giving people access to the financial ombudsman. That was only one of the many promises that mortgage holders would be treated the same that was broken. What steps is the Minister going to take...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is all cold comfort to people who are mortgage prisoners. The Minister was one of the cheerleaders who cheered this on and told them all there would be no difference and that it would be no problem whatsoever and they would have the same protections. However, he failed to deal with the main issue we are addressing. There are 7,000 mortgages holders that are now being charged over...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That was not the case.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: First of all, that is not true. It was not the case. On vulture funds, until last week those people were not able to even go to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, a legal provision that everybody else had until I pointed it out to the Minister and forced that to be changed. The Minister said he would not mind if his mortgage was sold to the vulture funds. He made that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Given that the ESRI and the Department of Finance have worked out these models, I put it to the Minister that we should very quickly have information on the 20% scenario outlined by the Trump Administration last night. The analysis done by the ESRI and the Department of Finance examined the potential impact of a US Administration tariff and gave us the numbers for it. They also looked at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The key here is negotiation and de-escalation. We need to get to a point where sensible and cool heads prevail. What happened yesterday was an act of economic sabotage by the US Administration in respect of its own economy. What was done will push up prices for American consumers. Obviously, the analysis was based on a 25% tariff, which was more severe than what we have seen, particularly...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Not true.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: She was on a trade mission there the week before.