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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: We have heard different commitments at different times from this Government and the previous Government. There were reviews and a Cabinet subcommittee set up two years ago. The Minister for Finance was doing a review last January; I do not know if it is still going on or whatever. A year on from that, in January, there is another review and a group being pulled together by the Minister of...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: In the past hour we have heard the usual excuses and well-versed defences from Government, something that has not changed in the years that I have been raising this issue. Any investors, cuckoo funds or vulture funds listening to the contributions from the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, will be happy enough because they know that their lads in...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael has been in government for ten years.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: At least the Minister is going to make sure his buddies do not pay any tax.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the housing crisis continues to worsen for renters and first-time buyers; — residential property prices have increased on average by 14 per cent in the last year according to the most recently published Residential Property Price Index by the Central Statistics Office; and — average rents nationally now stand at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the completion of capital works at Lifford Hospital, County Donegal; the services that will be available at the hospital post completion of works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7718/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the full publication of a report (details supplied) into abuse at a facility in County Donegal; and when the full report will be published. [7719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8067/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 659. To ask the Minister for Health when respite care and other services will recommence at full capacity at Drumboe House, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7519/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Tánaiste acknowledge that he was wrong?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The question was on mica.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We know the Tánaiste is more in line with the Tories and Boris Johnson in London than the Executive in the North but for the information of the House, my colleague Deirdre Hargey has already approved a €240 payment - not a loan - to individuals as a targeted support. That legislation is going through the Executive. The Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste's colleague, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, gave a commitment that foundations would be included. It appears they have not been.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Tánaiste explain to the House why he is asking thousands of homeowners to rebuild their homes to standards that for some will be a quarter of a century old-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: -----given what the Government is demanding and the SCSI standards

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The legislation has gone through.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste said it was a loan. Will he just accept he was wrong? He said it was a loan.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: And it is for individuals, not households.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: It is targeted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Doing less than you would be extremely hard because you have done nothing. That is the problem. You are tone deaf to where people are at.