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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (14 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider, in the absence of a reduction in VAT on domestic energy sources including gas and home heating oil, a discount scheme for low and middle income households that would then be reimbursed to providers in a similar manner to the operation of the free electricity allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61995/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (14 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he discussed the rising price of energy at the recent meeting of the Eurogroup; if he has analysed the support package announced by the Italian Government in September 2021 to support households from rising energy prices and the funds allocated to extend that protection into 2022; if he discussed those measures with his Italian counterpart; if he will...

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Ar dtús báire, I commend Deputies Mairéad Farrell and Patricia Ryan for bringing forward this timely, well-drafted legislation. The Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021 would ensure that some of the problems that have arisen from the gross mismanagement of projects such as the national children's hospital, mismanagement that we are, unfortunately, all too familiar with, does not...

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State's script available to Members?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The British Government intends to introduce a requirement for EU citizens who are not Irish citizens to apply for travel clearance if they wish to cross the Border on this island. It is bizarre that I am even saying that because the proposal is so disgraceful. It is such a shameful measure. It threatens livelihoods, particularly those in the tourism sector in my region, the north west. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Tá costais fhuinnimh sa tír seo ag ardú agus tá teaghlaigh amuigh ansin ag streachailt lena gcuid billí a íoc. Tá fíorbhrú ar dhaoine le airgead a fháil chun a gcuid tithe a théamh an Fómhar agus an Nollaig seo. Tá an Rialtas ag déanamh neamhairde air seo. Níl sé ag gníomhú cosúil le rialtais...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: There seems to be a trend here. It was the same when the Government was going to roll out free antigen tests but then Lidl and so on sorted it out. It is likely that the same thing will happen here. The Government will take so long to come up with a scheme that the weather will have got better. We will be into the spring or the summer and the Government will say that help is no longer...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: And their bills will keep on going up.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 97. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the eligibility criteria for the range of financial supports for businesses in response to the public health measures in place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60676/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 156. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will implement to provide support to businesses in County Donegal affected by public health measures announced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which are yet to be allocated to a complaint handler disaggregated by the number of weeks since they were first submitted with intervals of one week. [61089/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman which remain unresolved disaggregated by the number of months since they were first submitted with intervals of one month. [61090/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a teaching pension decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60901/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Uasal Deering chuig an gcoiste. We are used to Mr. Deering being a guest of our committee, but today he is with a different hat on, and I look forward to working with him in that new capacity. I take this opportunity to thank him for the engagement we have had during his role as the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, particularly in the passage of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I am signalling an area at which we would like Mr. Deering to look. I welcome his comments that he will take that matter under consideration. It also seems strange to me that public bodies go to great lengths to gather data. They get those data, collate them, clean them and prepare them in a publishable format, but often they do not maximise this by bringing all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I take Mr. Deering's point about when we are dealing with systems that speak to each other and information management. It can be a big project. I also know from the commentary of those behindkildarestreet.comthat they are not doing it at a huge cost. There are fundraising efforts and all of the rest of it. The Oireachtas website has improved in the last period, but it would be interesting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Forget about any individual case. Hypothetically speaking, let us say there is communication by text message - which has been around for many years - between a Minister and a fracking company that is lobbying about a licence to frack. That is an official document of the Department and it should be passed on. All Ministers are aware of that. The problem is that we have FOI requests going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am finished, thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 Dec 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on the sports capital programme application made by a club (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60719/21]