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High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Dáil record will show that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, opposed a windfall tax.

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — unsustainably high energy bills continue to put workers and families under significant financial pressure; — average gas and electricity bills have more than doubled over the past two years; — recent figures from the Economic and Social Research Institute estimate that the share of households in energy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on increasing excise duty on the price of gas for residential use, home heating oil and solid fuel products in May 2023 in the context of a cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the sale of tracker mortgages to third parties and vulture funds which were overcharged as a result of the tracker mortgage examination; his views on these sales in the context of the principles of the TME; and if he will engage with the Central Bank with respect to same. [11319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of complaints made with regard to the operation and services provided by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; if he will consider introducing an independent assessor to consider complaints about the standard of service and practical handling of a case provided by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net benefit per households, from March to end October 2023, of the reduced VAT rate applied to electricity and gas, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11323/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if houses that have outer leaf repairs carried out under the Mica redress scheme will qualify for SEAI home energy efficiency schemes grants, if it is the case they are prohibited from applying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the breakdown on the Bus Éireann route 32 Letterkenny to Dublin on 23 February 2023; if he is satisfied with the measures being taken to prevent future interruptions in this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10917/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Irregularities (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 28 February 2023, if the introduction of provisions to require reimbursement from payment service providers to victims of authorised push payment fraud domestically would contravene the revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2), given the response provided to the question did not clarify the issue. [11308/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 324. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a foreign birth register application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 550. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment at Letterkenny University Hospital can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if they are on the routine or urgent waiting list in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10947/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday my colleague Deputy Guirke raised the case of Kitty, who is from Trim in County Meath. I am sure the Tánaiste has heard her story. She is over 100 years old and received an electricity bill of almost €1,000 for the past two months. Like so many others, Kitty is being absolutely fleeced. Yesterday I received an email from a woman named Christina who works part-time....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: On behalf of Kitty, Christina and many like them, I ask the Tánaiste to change course and provide support for these families with regard to their electricity bills.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What should Kitty do? Should she turn off the lights or not do the washing?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is €1,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is at times like these that we recognise the value of the emergency services. I saw it myself, standing at the lines in Creeslough where people were rushing in to a building that could collapse and, again, yesterday evening, as people risked their own lives to make sure that other lives were saved. Thankfully, we are standing here today with a plan that was executed without fault in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Can we have time next week?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, a terrible fire broke out at Wexford General Hospital, which has led to the evacuation of more than 200 patients. Our thoughts this morning are with the people of Wexford. I commend everybody involved in the emergency response. In particular, I commend the Wexford fire brigade, all of our front-line healthcare workers, those in the ambulance service in the hospital and nearby...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (2 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can give assurances that the recent disruption to travel due to an airline (details supplied) cancelling flights to Donegal Airport will not recur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10524/23]