Results 421-440 of 36,631 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I have been dealing with people throughout the State who are mortgage prisoners of vulture funds. They have seen huge interest rates being charged on their mortgages. The ECB has reduced mortgage rates on eight consecutive occasions but there seems to be no let up for those who are mortgage prisoners, and there are almost 100,000 of them. These are mortgages that are now with vulture...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the level of investment by the State in Israeli bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39745/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: My first question is about Israeli war bonds. The Minister will know that we had Private Members' business about this before. We learned yesterday that the State continued to invest in Israeli war bonds right through the genocide. As our screens were lighting up with men, women and children being slaughtered by Israel, the State still held investments during that genocide. I would like to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I find this absolutely outrageous. What did the Minister do in this period? Did he know that the Irish State, using Irish taxpayers' money, was funding a genocide? Israel does not hide behind this. It does not blush about this. It sells and advertises these bonds as supporting the war effort. We all know that it is not a war. We know it is genocide. Before this, regarding the Central...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treasury Management Agency (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Exactly. We were asking the Minister how much money ISIF had in war bonds, how much money it was putting on the table and how much money was being invested in the bombs and bullets that were slaughtering children right before our eyes. Children who were queueing up for water were being slaughtered and this State invested money in it. You cannot wash your hands of this. You are the bloody...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is that why the Minister got to her feet a second time?

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order, the Minister was given discretion to speak twice, which is unique. Can she explain the clinical decision with which she has an issue?

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thought the Minister was going to be a bit humble, believe the women and be a bit respectful. Instead, she stands up with this nonsense.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is not a choice.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The neglect and failure need to end. Endometriosis affects so many women. Like others, I have attended meetings in different parts of the country. I have heard some harrowing stories. There is also a constant theme that no matter where it is in the country, these women feel they have been abandoned by the State, and they have. They feel they have been ignored, dismissed and talked down...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman has failed to make preliminary rulings for 500 cases that have been before the Ombudsman for over five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39432/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the State's investment through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (15 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and total value of loans by high-cost loan providers in 2024 [39435/25]