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Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas leis na Daonlathaithe Sóisialta as ucht an rún seo a ardú ar maidin. Tabharfaimid tacaíocht don rún agus táimid in éadan leasú an Rialtais. I can just add to what Deputy Ó Broin has said and Deputy Hearne about the failure of the senior Minister to come to the House. It now seems he is...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: If we look at the targets, they are far too low, but it is the private sector which outperforms targets every year. It is the Government which misses its public housing targets every single year. It is the State and this Government that is not pulling its weight. There is a half a billion euro hole in the housing budget this year. This is a Government that failed to build enough houses...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Contracts (19 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 12 February 2025; the total value of all invoices paid to a company (details supplied) in relation to the 24-month contract for them to operate as the Department’s independent advisor on the State’s banking assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6746/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (19 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 46 to 54 of 6 February 2025; to provide the number of tax avoidance cases that have been timed out or closed as a result of the time limit being reached, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6747/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (19 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 46 to 54 of 6 February 2025; to provide the average duration of a tax avoidance case since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6748/25]

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this. I am sure the Minister is aware that if you are a parent of a child with additional needs, sometimes it can be exhausting. It is not the child that exhausts you, but fighting against the system over and over again. Over the last number of weeks and indeed in the last number of days, with a huge number of people coming to us,...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the lease has been signed for the move by a school (details supplied) to a premises in Letterkenny; if so, the duration of the lease; when lease comes into effect; the cost of the move, including start-up costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (18 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient (details supplied) from County Donegal will be transferred from Sligo University Hospital to Beaumont Hospital for a second opinion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5457/25]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Tánaiste accept that the Government and, indeed, the Government of which he was in charge during the previous term has a serious problem with the waste of public money? Those in government are serial wasters. That is what we are seeing over and over again. The Tánaiste talks about accountability. Name the person who was held accountable for the overspend on the national...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is a serious issue here. We cannot go through another RTÉ phase 2. We need all the information and Ministers need to tell us what the Department knew, who knew, whether the Department of public expenditure knew and whether the Department of the Environment knew.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Is fíor a rá gur chaith Rialtais Fhianna Fáil agus Fhine Gael go holc le ceantair tuaithe ar fud an Stáit thar na blianta. Léiríonn an dóigh ar láimhseáil an Rialtas an stoirm is déanaí an cás seo arís. Le rudaí a dhéanamh níos measa, tá na bodaigh mhóra i mBord Soláthair an Leictreachais anois ag...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: It is not a case of whether the ESB will be gouging people in the future. The ESB has been gouging customers for years. People in the Tánaiste's constituency, in my constituency and right across this State pay among the highest electricity costs in Europe. The ESB made profits of €898 million in the last calendar year we have available. That is a significant amount of profit....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: My colleague, Deputy Daly, has outlined clearly and in detail the activities of some of these companies in which Ireland is investing. I will put the issue to the Minister again. We have raised it numerous times during meetings of the finance committee where we have tried to pursue the legislation. What the Minister has told the House is that millions of euro of taxpayers' money are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The State is making profit from illegal settlements.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This is an issue we have raised on numerous occasions. My colleague has legislation before the House that has, unfortunately, been blocked by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in the face of a genocide. The question asks for the current total number and value of State investments in companies that derive profit from their activities in illegal Israeli settlements, the total number of such...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the implications for Ireland of the recent decision by the new US Administration to withdraw from the OECD Global Tax Deal, making specific reference to both pillars of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5419/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This question is on the OECD pillar 2. Obviously, for those of us who support the OECD process and the outcomes of that the decision by the American Administration to withdraw from it has caused serious questions about the implementation not only of pillar 1, which was stalled, but also the practicality of pillar 2. As this is transposed into domestic legislation it includes the provision...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I am going to park pillar 1 because it never came into effect anyway and we have not transposed it into legislation. If we look at it from a financial point of view it was not in our interests and if we look at it from a global point of view it was good to have an agreement internationally. Pillar 2 is a serious problem for us because it is now in our domestic law...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Agreements (13 Feb 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister. I agree it is early days and we will have to see. President Trump has made statements that seem to be a negotiation stance, so we definitely need to have those engagements at a European level and a domestic level to see how this will play out. Obviously pillar 1 and pillar 2 had a net reduction in our corporation tax. The implementation of those reduced the...