Results 6,201-6,220 of 35,563 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment his Department has made regarding the significant fall in dividend withholding tax paid by Irish real estate funds in 2021; the proposals his Department is considering to ensure Irish real estate funds are taxed equitably; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; the number of unassessed appeals before the board; the status of the review of the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55910/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is considering options to amend the temporary business energy support scheme to provide additional support for smaller firms with limited resources, revenue and reserves to meet rising energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55912/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for further flexibility with respect to the TBESS to support the viability of businesses struggling with their energy costs in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53862/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the effective tax rate applied to three banks (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 and 2021; his views on restricting their ability to reduce their corporate tax liability through historic losses in the context of heightened interest income and profitability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55909/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied customer complaints submitted by persons (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding transport issues, the student leap card and an associated refund are fully responded to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56009/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We are up against time here. We are due to conclude our deliberations in 15 minutes. I hope we can dispose of the section. This section involves an extension of the help-to-buy scheme. I will not revisit it, but there has been a debate on the scheme, its impact in pushing up house prices and the desperation of people out there who will grab with both hands anything to help them to avoid...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We reserve the right to bring back on Report Stage all the amendments we have tabled. The Minister did not respond to the point that 53% of the support under the scheme is going to people who do not need it. The Minister intends to end the scheme. At least, that is what he tells us. What he does is extend it here every time, despite the advice he gets from officials and independent...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It was always there.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: On the section-----

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Last month, the EPA published its 2021 report on urban wastewater treatment. It found that only half of sewerage is treated to EU standards with more than 2.5 million tonnes of raw sewage being pumped into our seas and rivers every year. This pollutes our environment and poses a real health risk to the public. The most recent EU monitor report found that we have a compliance rate of 44%...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is not populist to bring the stories of people to this Chamber.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach is living in a bubble.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 114. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an echocardiogram in Letterkenny University Hospital; if they are on the urgent or routine waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55682/22]

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is one month since the tragedy visited Creeslough, with the loss of ten beautiful lives that gave so much joy to their families, friends and community. They were 14-year-old Leona Harper, who went into the shop to buy an ice cream, excited about the sleepover she was about to attend that evening; Robert Garwe and his five-year-old daughter, little Shauna Flanagan Garwe, who had gone into...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That side of the House created it.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision for their community employment ex-gratia payment for supervisors' application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 1036. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54639/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (8 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 1150. To ask the Minister for Health when medical records will be released for persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55116/22]