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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Deputy McConalogue should look after the mica families----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: -----instead of forgetting about the people of Donegal when he took up his position in Cabinet.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Disgraceful. He abandoned his own people. He abandoned his county-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: They were in government with you. You were in the same government; do not forget that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Tá an cuma ar an scéal nach dtuigeann an Rialtas an práinn a bhaineann le déileáil leis an ghéarchéim maidir le costais maireachtála na tíre seo. Tá a gcuid réiteach ró-bheag agus ró-mhall agus caithfear réitigh a chur i ngníomh atá dírithe orthu siúd ar ioncaim íseal agus orthu siúd atá...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: With all the recent talk from Ministers, including the Tánaiste, it is clear from that response that they simply do not get it. They do not get where ordinary people are at and they do not understand the fact rents are spiralling out of control. In my county there was a 24% increase and throughout the State there was an average 10% increase. The Government does not understand the...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the Action Plan for Insurance Reform. [7125/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (10 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that will be raised in 2022 through the scheduled increase in carbon tax on 1 May 2022. [7251/22]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach does not understand it.
- 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...