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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask the Minister's thinking on-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. It is a 7.4% increase compared with last year. That was the point. I do not think the Minister disputes that, but-----

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: All in our alternative budget.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: And all in the alternative budget.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: They are.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Bar this one because interest rates have gone up to nearly 4%.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: They do.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Maybe the Minister should get a basin of water to wash his hands of how he has abandoned mortgage holders.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I have said it so many times.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Because it ends.

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges the most recent Stability Programme Update 2023, which forecasts a general government surplus in excess of €10 billion this year; agrees with: — the Free Legal Advice Centre that "spikes in the cost of living and interest rates threaten an increase in new arrears cases"; and — the Money Advice and Budgeting Service...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that a passport is processed on time for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the teaching measures that will be put in place for a student (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19509/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 520. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug melatonin is available under the discretionary hardship scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (25 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to allow a person (details supplied) use the National Purchase Treatment Fund to access urgent surgery; if each and every possible option available has been explored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19022/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, appeared before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach over the botched attempt to arrange an open-ended secondment of Dr. Tony Holohan, up until his retirement, with €20 million of public money assigned to that secondment. The external review commissioned by the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: -----and its contents. What lessons will be learned? Will they be the same lessons learned when the Government tried to appoint Ms Katherine Zappone to a makey-up job? Will the Tánaiste explain what lessons will be learned regarding this matter, given the chief person rejects the findings?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It does.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It names the same-----