Results 7,521-7,540 of 35,563 for speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We voted against the amendment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Of course. Yes, we do.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We are not going to increase it. It is clear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We will not increase it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Answer the question about turf.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: There is no carbon tax on turf. Answer the question about turf.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am aware the Minister has never spent a day on the bog. I hear that from media reports. However, if he understood families who rely on burning turf, it is the cheapest form of fuel at this time. The Minister talks about excess deaths. Every excess death is one too many but let me tell the Minister about excess deaths. Every year, 2,800 people in this State die of fuel poverty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister wants to ban people from rural communities - people in my community, my neighbour - from being able to purchase a load of turf come September. They do not have any other source of heating. Will the Minister tell me, if he applauds a just transition, where is the justice in that? This is a daft idea and that has been recognised across the political divide. The Minister is out...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy should come to my parish and ask my neighbours how they are going to heat their homes come September and in winter-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: -----and how they will get hot water and keep their families safe. That is what the Minister wants to do. I ask that he clarify in detail what the proposal on the turf ban is at this point in time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce further targeted measures to support lower- and middle-income families in response to the level of inflation projected for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21476/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: This question relates to the willingness of the Government to introduce further targeted measures to support lower- and middle-income families in response to the high levels of inflation that are projected for 2022 and if he will make a statement on the matter. We are looking for further measures. I am sure the Minister of State's script will include references to everything the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State made the point that not every part of inflation can be offset by the Government and I recognise that. We have made that point over and over again. Not everybody can be insulated from the effects of inflation. However, a government should make sure the most vulnerable in society are protected first and protected the most. I put it to the Minister of State that the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure if the Minister of State does not get it. I do not know if he does not care or if the Government does not care. I do not want to personalise this criticism to the Minister of State. It must be accepted across the political divide that those who are most in need are those who are on low incomes and those who are on social welfare fixed incomes. The Government has not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The writing is on the wall here. We can all see it. That is why I have asked the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach to carry out a piece of work on this. We have issued detailed questionnaires to all the banks. All of them have responded, bar KBC Bank, but we will get its response soon, and we have engaged with the Central Bank on this. There will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I apologise a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but has Deputy Mairéad Farrell been in contact about my taking her question for her?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is actually a year this week since the Judicial Council guidelines came into effect. Awards have dropped dramatically but premiums have not. Even in motor insurance, they have not dropped to the level that we expected or, indeed, that the industry told us to expect. We are not seeing the reductions to business and community groups. It is a year on. We have been told to wait and see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It should be 20% but it is not happening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 5. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing excise duty as it applies to home heating oil in accordance with the excise directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21564/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (28 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Last night, the Minister of State and his colleagues voted on a Sinn Féin amendment that would have removed excise duty from home heating oil on a temporary basis. He and his colleagues in the Government voted against it. It was a major mistake. Removing excise duty from home heating oil would have reduced the cost of a tank fill by more than €100 and cost less than €74...