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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What happened to the promise made by the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, of 1,5000 additional hospital beds? He announced it on three occasions. That promise has melted away like snow on the ditch. It seems that the Minister was hung out to dry by a Government that has backed his incompetence every step of the way. It is clear to everybody that the Minister is out of his depth. He...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic appointments will be issued to children (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal qualifies for the special rate of SUSI grant in their exceptional circumstances; if any outstanding documentation is required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44569/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI will provide assistance to an applicant (details supplied) locked out of their account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44623/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an online passport application for a child (details supplied) living in the North that was submitted on 14 August 2023 will issue on time for their travel date 23 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application can be processed for a person (details supplied); if the issue with resubmission links and security questions can be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration for a person (details supplied); if a refund will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Section 12(2) of the British-Irish Agreement applies to Waterways Ireland; if this provision includes lease agreements and encroachment licenses, on foreshore or Waterways Ireland property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44407/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland is a State authority to which Section 13(1)(b) of the Statute of Limitations 1957 would apply. [44408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if negotiations regarding any disposal of assets by Waterways Ireland are subject to full transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland has or would consider issuing a commercial operating licence to operators for developments before they are regularised and legalised; and the checks that are currently in place before issuance. [44410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (11 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Waterways Ireland has utilised any unauthorised developments for the purpose of boat storage, repair or maintenance in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44411/23]

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

Pearse Doherty: The number one issue facing workers and families is the housing crisis. It permeates every facet of Irish life. Young people are left without hope, children are growing up in emergency accommodation, businesses cannot get workers, schools cannot get teachers, and gardaí, nurses, members of our Defence Forces are leaving their profession because they cannot find somewhere to live. This...

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

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have caused the housing crisis and today's budget is further confirmation that they are not the ones to fix it. We needed a budget for renters; instead we got a budget for landlords. A Sinn Féin Government would have introduced a budget that would have got to grips with the housing crisis and built the homes our people so desperately need. Access to...

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]