Results 901-920 of 35,536 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: For goodness' sake.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That was promised before.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This is ridiculous.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This is not a point of order.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: If we want to bring in character references-----
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to a communication from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal relating to a grant aid for major capital works and a Department of Education inspector visit; when the inspector will visit the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39234/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of sports capital applications, successful and unsuccessful, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39402/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if further funding will be provided to deal with the problems with CDNTs in County Donegal, such as long wating lists and the high number of vacancies in CDNTs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39466/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that have been taken to address the current crisis in CDNTs in County Donegal, specifically, the high number of positions vacant in CDNTs, long waiting lists, the failure to provide necessary equipment to children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39400/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a dedicated stoma nurse for primary, community and continuing care services in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39395/24]
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----to cover beds, urgent care, women's health, older people, mental health and national strategies. This is a paltry sum.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: There is going to be chaos in our health system next year, just as there was each year before because the Government is deliberately not making the types of improvements and reforms required with the funding that is necessary. It stands in stark contrast to Sinn Féin's comprehensive proposals. We have a plan to reform the health service, boost capacity, train the workforce of tomorrow...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: ----- to protect people from the cost-of-living crisis in the here and now, to make a lasting difference in people's lives and to tackle social exclusion and poverty. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, talked about child poverty being a priority of the Government. Some 230,000 children are currently experiencing material deprivation. This is an increase of almost 30,000 children since 2022. If...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The rise comes amid a 3% real decline in the average disposable income of households with children. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have failed families and failed children, and child poverty is deepening as a result. Child benefit is a crucial tool for tackling child poverty and supporting families. After Fianna Fáil crashed the economy in 2008, it made children pay. Remember that,...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Initially-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Listen. None of your bull. You cut the child benefit and you squeezed the children further.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is the reality.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is Deputy Micheál Martin trying to deny that Fianna Fáil cut the child benefit or is Fine Gael trying to say it did not make cuts to child benefit for later children and abolish the grants for multiple children? That is the reality, folks. Do not deny reality; own it and embrace it.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael then cut child benefit across the board by a further €10 for the first and second children and there was a steeper cut for the third child.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Today, the rate is still below where it was in 2008, despite the fact that we have €24 billion of a surplus. That is how children were made to pay during the austerity period and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will not deal with it. That is why child poverty is getting worse under Fine Gael's watch. That is why there are 30,000 more children in material deprivation under Fine...