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Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, to delete lines 29 to 35, and in page 10, to delete lines 1 to 10 and substitute the following: “(2)(a)The Minister shall prescribe in respect of a loan (other than a running account) under a high cost credit agreement— (i) the maximum rate of simple interest chargeable per week (being a rate less than or equal to 0.75 per cent), and...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I have two brief points to make. With respect, I do not know why the Minister took issue with the term "corporate welfare". It was not used in a derogatory way. Just as we have an obligation and responsibility to support people who find themselves unemployed with welfare supports, as the Minister knows, I supported measures to support the corporate sector because of the restrictions and...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: These are three amendments that have been returned from the Seanad with regard to the Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. We will support them. As the Minister said, they provide for an extension of the 9% VAT rate for the tourism and hospitality sector until 1 March 2023. It is worth pointing out that since this initiative was reintroduced in budget 2021, to run...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Families are living in crumbling homes in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Clare and right across many other counties. They have waited and waited for a just scheme - one that is fit for purpose and that allows them to start to rebuild their lives. The defective concrete blocks grant scheme, which has been in operation since 2020, has, by the Minister's own admission, fallen far short of what...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Enough of the Minister's spoofing. Here are a couple of home truths. He has been in the Department for a couple of years. House prices are going through the roof. Entire generations have been locked out of homeownership under his watch. Rents are spiralling out of control. They are increasing dramatically in many counties, which means people are becoming homeless. Homelessness is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true. He is misleading the Dáil. I have the document.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister misled the Dáil - 250,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am opposed to putting taxpayers' money into the pockets of developers and charging nearly half a million for an apartment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Anybody with sense is opposed to that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the 250,000 question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the 250,000 question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I express my condolences to the families of the children murdered in Robb Elementary School in Texas. Our thoughts are with the heartbroken families at this time. Along with the Ceann Comhairle and the rest of the team here I welcome to the Dáil the First Minister-designate and her team. I wish her all the best as she leads the assembly into this term. Insím don Aire, nach bhfuil...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a child (details supplied) will issue on time for the travel date of 1 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of a passport application for a person (details supplied) living in Australia; when the passport is expected to be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26783/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Fáilte go dtí an coiste. Welcome to the committee. Some ground has been covered by my colleagues. I thank the Financial Services Union representatives for appearing before the committee. I wish to put on record again my appreciation and that of my party for the work the union does in the financial sector. It is an example of the benefits that come with greater trade union...