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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]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Ms Lisa Hone of the Mica Action Group spoke of how one year after the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage announced his intention to bring forward a new redress scheme, households felt abandoned by this Government. They remained locked out of the scheme and facing a shortfall of tens of thousands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Tax cuts for the rich.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Government called for the ECB to increase interest rates earlier this year and now they are suffering as a result of that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Táthar ag súil ar maidin go n-ardódh an Banc Ceannais Eorpach a ráta úis arís faoi 0.75 pointe céatadáin eile. Sin méadú de dhá phointe céatadáin ó mhí iúil, agus beidh tionchar láithreach ag an ardú seo ar theaghlaigh a bhfuil morgáiste rianúcháin acu, le go leor ag feiceáil a gcuid...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: All those excessive profits the banks are making go untaxed under the Tánaiste's Government. The banks have told us themselves that, despite making nearly €1 billion in the first six months of this year, this will boost their interest income by another €1 billion. The Central Bank has told us that, of all European banks, Irish banks will benefit most from the hikes. It...