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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Apartments are homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: They are going up every year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Seriously? You have nothing to say to them.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Sin é bun agus barr an scéil. Tá freagraí de dhíth, ní orainn, ach ar mhuintir na Gaeltachta. Tá siad ag fanacht anois deich mbliana le toghcháin a thabhairt ar ais ag bord Údarás na Gaeltachta. Tá an cheist seo socraithe sa Ghaeltacht. Roimh an olltoghchán deireanach, bhí cruinnithe sa Ghaeltacht ag na grúpaí...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Údarás na Gaeltachta (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis an t-ábhar seo a phlé inniu. Tá sé deich mbliana anois ó cuireadh deireadh le daonlathas taobh istigh de bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta. Sin deich mbliana ó rinne Rialtas Fhine Gael agus Páirtí an Lucht Oibre cinneadh deireadh a chur le toghcháin do bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta. Le bheith...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacant civil service positions filled in all offices in County Donegal from both internal and mobility transfers in each of the years 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6957/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a top-up to a carer's allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6964/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Taoiseach. I am glad to have him before the committee. I will pick up on the questions Deputy Farrell has asked. I take it the Taoiseach has great knowledge of the Good Friday Agreement from his role as a former Minister with responsibility for foreign affairs. He accepts the Good Friday Agreement is a legally binding agreement on the Irish and British...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: In the Good Friday Agreement, the constitutional mechanism to bring about a new Ireland or changing the constitutional status of the North rests with the Secretary of State, and there is a conditionality that is part of it. That part of the Good Friday Agreement is also judicially reviewable. Is this not the case?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We are seeing trends in the support for a referendum on the constitutional issue. In the most recent opinion poll, 51% of people in the North said that they want a referendum within five years. I would not dare to extrapolate that this would mean 51% would support it. Some will want a referendum for different reasons. Support for Irish unity has been growing, particularly among younger...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: For clarity-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am not suggesting that. I agree with the Taoiseach's view concerning the dialogue and engagement that must happen to ensure any referendum and any transition that would take place in the future would be as smooth and seamless as possible at that point in time. That is an important but different point. In a conversation with a former Secretary of State when we raised these issues with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I do not think many people would suggest that it be done in a non-inclusive way. The problem is that if one believes the only way we can have these conversations is when everybody is included and political unionism is at the table, that is not likely to happen in the short term because unionism, by its nature, believes in the union, which is a legitimate view held by leaders of unionism who...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with the Taoiseach. I have no problem with it but I would issue a warning shot for those who want to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I know the Minister is not suggesting that but there are those who would like to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement. We also need to be very mindful of what has happened with the DUP such as the upcoming elections, the loss of support and the fact that it is looking over its shoulder. We know all that is happening and all the play acting that is taking place.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: My time is limited and while I did not intend to go there, in relation to the Estimates, the Taoiseach confirmed in a parliamentary question that the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality met in November 2020 and November 2021, I believe. I am not sure of the next time it will meet. The Taoiseach reiterated that the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will be fully...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: On leaks from the Cabinet, the Taoiseach's Department oversees the investigation to ensure that no leaks take place. I raised this with him at last year's Estimates the leak of the mother and baby home report. It was very insensitive and caused a lot of hurt and pain at that time. An investigation was ongoing last year. Can the Taoiseach update the committee? Has that investigation...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How long has it been going on for now?