Results 701-720 of 36,762 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: If there are plans, please revert to the committee on them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We talk about the city centre task force, and these two properties arise in that regard. I have some questions on the old Debtors' Prison on Halston Street and near Capel Street. Before the Minister of State took office, the OPW took housing activists to court to get a court order to evict them from the property. I am not speaking for the housing activists but the reason they were in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the Minister of State may not have the answer to my next question but I will ask it so that the information can be provided to the committee. It is suggested that it has cost €1.1 million to maintain the prison for the last five years. The property has lain vacant for decades and housing activists were evicted from it ten years ago. Please confirm how much has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I do not have to mention that we are in the middle of a housing crisis and all of the rest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The property has lain vacant for more than 30 years. Surely to God somebody in the OPW, instead of building bike sheds out the front, might look at a property there that could be regenerated into housing or something commercially sound. The only action that seems to have taken place is the taking of housing activists to court a decade ago to evict them. However, I appreciate that did not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister of State understand our cynicism?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and it was proposed that there would be a commemorative centre in the national museum for that year. That is nine years but nothing has been done. Are there any plans? Is there anything we can see? If there is, then please send them to this committee. From what we can see, there is no date to establish a national commemorative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: If the design team is working on updating the programme, then that means the team did very little ten years ago. How can an announcement be made that a commemorative centre will be built on the national monument for 2016 and now there is talk of a design team? What scuppered the project? Is there any understanding of what scuppered the project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. I now question my faith in the OPW when it comes to the commercialisation of the GPO. Our history and culture must be protected. People really need to rally around because I am very concerned about what the Government plans to do, particularly in respect of the GPO. I appreciate that the Minister of State will get me the information and my invitation still stands for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: In fairness, the issue was not listed for me to answer today and I do not have a response.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of blood tests for Letterkenny University Hospital that are outsourced from March 2024; the cost of this outsourcing during this period; the cost of doing the same percentage of blood tests in-house over the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36245/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The reason this is happening is because the Government has turned its face against a cost-of-living package-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----because it thinks the cost-of-living crisis is over. We need a cost-of-living package and fees need to be reduced, not increased.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I just asked about fees.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I asked the Minister for clarity. Does anybody have clarity in respect of the question I asked?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Families are asking if the fees are going to cost €2,000 or €3,000 come September. The Minister went on to say that this was the way things were done but the Minister, Deputy Lawless, has made it very clear that fees will go up by €1,000. He said that if he did not have a cost-of-living package, he could not take the kinds of measure that were taken last year. There...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Tá cinneadh an Rialtais chun táillí coláiste a ardú €1,000 craiceáilte. Is feall scannalach é ar mhic léinn agus ar a muintir. Cuirfidh sé brú sa bhreis orthu fad agus atá siad ag streachailt leis an ghéarchéim chostas maireachtála. For months we have listened for months to the Government telling us how it has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the urgent need for housing in Gweedore and other Gaeltacht regions in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (1 Jul 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government has any plans to address the shortcomings of the enhanced defective block grant scheme which continue to have a significant impact on those affected by the defective concrete blocks crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35832/25]