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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...payments make up approximately 3% so we have the biggest gap in the market. If there was any country that wants to move ahead, it should be Ireland. We have this regulation now and I do not know how long it is going to take to implement. Can Mr. Palmer shed any light on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...in 2022 but an explosion in 2021, which was related to Covid, with more people at home doing online shopping, who were easier targets for fraud. One thing is very clear. If we look over a longer horizon, this is a losing battle. It is going up and up. We have had people from the BPFI at the committee saying that the problem is that, as other jurisdictions close down, including Britain,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...to have confidence in the information RTÉ shares, the truth should be fundamental and non-negotiable, yet that trust now lies in tatters. The recent revelations are an example of a cosy consensus, an insider culture, that has existed in this State for far too long. While many workers, including at RTÉ, work hard day in, day out on ordinary salaries, it is a very different story...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...leis an ghéarchéim costais maireachtála, leanann an Rialtas ag teip ar ghnáthdhaoine na tíre seo. Yesterday, the European Commission published figures confirming for workers and families what they have known for a long time, namely, that we live in a rip-off Republic. The Commission confirmed that this State is the most expensive place to live in the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...from the individual. I wanted to put that into law. It was blocked by some political parties. We are now dealing with the aftermath of that. In my view, because vulture funds do not have a long-term interest or any further interest in loans, student loans or agricultural loans, they only want to get as much as possible from people's debts, so they were always more likely to increase...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...figure is higher than January this year when we saw the worst levels of overcrowding in our hospitals since the IMNO started to collate these figures. This level of overcrowding at the beginning of summer is unprecedented and needs to be tackled to prevent even worse chaos this winter. The trolley crisis is no longer a seasonal event. It is a national crisis and a national scandal. Not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...Community Special School say they cannot even get on to the waiting list for overnight respite services because the school the children are attending is not operated by what they call a traditional disability service provider. That is a farcical state of affairs that has gone on for far too long. This morning, we hear that the HSE has rejected the proposal for the Minister of State,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...statement, Professor Kinsella said the cost of ageing can be identified as pensions but pensions constitute just a portion albeit the larger component but it is not the majority component. Health, long-term care and education are also factors and the cost of those three areas combined will be larger than the cost of pensions over the next 20 to 30 years. Professor Kinsella talks about...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...looking at the report of ageing from the Department of Finance, which refers to the period up to 2050. I mentioned a 30-year horizon. The report puts pensions at 7.5% of GNI*, healthcare at 5.1%, long-term care at 2.4% and education at 3.2%. Even if we project it out to 2070, pensions would be the largest component, but the other three components are actually greater than pensions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...designate, Ms Michelle O'Neill, wrote to the Taoiseach in January this year underlining the need for the Irish Government and the Executive to remain fully committed to the delivery of the A5 upgrade. However, commitment must be more than simply words. It must be backed with funding to get it over the line. For too long this project, which is critical to save lives and improve the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (9 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...balance sheet. Up to 7,000 of these homes could be in this situation. This is not a small issue; this is a very big issue. I will say this again. We have been raising the issue of the banks for a long time now. This is us trying to deal with the disaster that is being foisted upon these families by not having 100% redress - we have not given up the battle on that. The issue here...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Regarding the corporation tax, can the Minister, Deputy McGrath, give us a timeline in respect of his proposal for a long-term savings vehicle? Regarding the numbers before us relating to expenditure for next year, €1 billion was announced yesterday and also €500 million was announced in terms of the tenant in situscheme. Have they been factored into these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...out, to say that it would buy the house. Yet, it is too late. She was evicted. She is in emergency accommodation. The landlord had been in contact with the council as far back as August of last year about selling the house to the council. He has pulled out now because it has taken too long. She has been evicted and she is in emergency accommodation in the Tánaiste's own county...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...about whether 13.5% or 9% is the right rate for the tourism sector. I am not sure myself. It is a costly measure. Therefore, I would not advocate it. A strong argument has been made for the long term regarding whether we are out of kilter with some of our competitors. Britain is an outlier in all of that, since it has a higher rate than even us. I am not sure what the Minister's view...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...scheme is unworkable even for those who are eligible. It is not acceptable that the Government does not know. Businesses expected that as we are dealing with a Finance Bill, they would have some type of certainty. How long does it take to figure out that these businesses need to be supported and figure out what type of grant level is needed? I believe this is not a priority. If it...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...now paying in mortgage interest compared with last year. I will not go into the whole fact that they should never have been sold to vultures in the first place. The Minister was instrumental in making sure that legislation never passed this committee at the time, along with Fine Gael. But they were sold to vultures and the commitments we got from political parties that now share...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...to go". She said: "I just want to break down and sob my heart out - I just don't know what to do". She has nowhere to live and nowhere to go. The range of people impacted is wide and far. We are dealing day in and day out with parents, people with long-term illnesses, people with disabilities, care workers, teachers, nurses and professionals who are all facing evictions in the...

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...the middle of a housing crisis. You would swear to God we did not have rents at record levels, house prices at record levels and a whole generation locked out of any prospect of homeownership the longer the Government stays in power. Listening to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, you would swear 11,754 people were not in emergency accommodation. Under his watch, 3,400 children are in...