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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Community facilities. Does the Minister acknowledge that Ministers were aware there was no legal basis for the charges that were imposed in the settings and that disabled individuals, some profoundly so, were denied their payments? That is what happened under Fianna Fáil.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Those were public nursing homes; I am talking about section 39 organisations.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I would really love to know whether the Minister is going to do anything for the mortgage holders.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Outside the Minister's budget proposals, he is going to introduce another suite of proposals that he did not include last year. Is this going to be part-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: So do I.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I do.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister stated in the Dáil last week that mortgage interest relief would cost over €700 million. When the Parliamentary Budget Office, which is independent, publishes its numbers, I hope the Minister will apologise in this regard. It is a case of spin and bluster because the reality is that he is leaving these mortgage holders out to dry.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Without any numbers.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Without any numbers whatsoever. It is crazy stuff.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should tell the committee about the unallocated resources.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission (Revised) (15 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is for the committee to scrutinise the Minister about what is unallocated with regard to some of the moneys available.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Veterinary Services (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister and thank Deputy Carthy for tabling the question, and I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh, who has led out on this and had a priority question earlier. I come from a rural county but it is also a Border county. The two are very important when we look at this issue because there is a question of geography and access to veterinary services. We know in the evaluation that was...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. It is an important debate in a crucial week for households that will in large part determine how they will cope during the rest of the year. I acknowledge the Minister of State, Deputy O'Brien's contribution was of on different level. At least he talked about some measures. However, if anybody needed an example of how far out of touch the...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin has tabled a motion tonight after people have queued for food parcels today. As parents are sitting down wondering how they will feed their kids supper and what is in store tomorrow and next week, they are watching this debate hoping the Government will recognise their hardships and plight. The Minister, who is the Minister for Social Protection not just for the Fine Gael...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Talk to some of your own Ministers about some of that; some of your former Ministers.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If there was ever a lesson in how out of touch you are, Heather, that was it. Fair play to you. Not a mention of the people at the food banks. An ivory tower politician.

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the cost-of-living crisis continues to put workers and families under significant financial pressure and there is a growing urgency to ensure supports are adequate, available, and accessible; and — emergency action must be taken to give workers and families a much-needed break from the cost-of-living crisis;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to the location of a new veterinary school; and his views on whether any newly established courses will be internationally accredited. [6885/23]