Results 8,081-8,100 of 36,133 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Are people going to be banned from buying turf or not?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Sit down. You do not have a clue what your own policy is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: This is an embarrassment to the House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The House wants to know what the Minister's plan is on turf, with respect.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is ridiculous. Sit down.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: What is the plan?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: What is your plan? Do you have a plan?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Are you banning turf or not?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Tá géarchéim costas maireachtála ar fud na tíre. Tá billí fuinnimh ag dul in airde agus ag cur fíor-bhrú ar oibrithe agus ar theaghlaigh ar fud an Stáit. Aréir, vótáil an Rialtas in éadan moladh de chuid Shinn Féin a thabharfadh faoiseamh dáiríre do theaghlaigh trí chostas ola teasa baile a laghdú...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2022)
Pearse Doherty: We voted against the Government amendment.
- 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.