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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (12 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is it still on track?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (12 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Chairman, I appreciate that. Unfortunately I had some technical difficulties and was logged out of my laptop for nearly ten minutes. I missed part of the discussion but I will look back on the transcript. We have had a good engagement. It would be helpful if the Central Bank could forward to the committee at the earliest opportunity the information we have sought. I will...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas le achan duine a labhair sa díospóireacht inniu, go háirithe na Teachtaí a thug tacaíocht don rún os ár gcomhair. I listened to the words of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and, to say the God's honest truth, if the situation were not as serious and if so many people had not had their hopes, dreams and...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I will explain it to him in case he does not understand. The reason we oppose the shared equity scheme is very simple. We believe it risks increasing house prices for people who are already locked out of the market. The Minister need not take our word for it. The Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, the ESRI and the Central Bank have all warned him about the scheme....

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: We have been putting forward the proposals set out in this motion year after year in the debate on the Finance Bill. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party voted against even looking at the idea of additional stamp duty on these types of funds just six months ago. Those parties voted against even looking at that because they want the status quo. Now, because of the public anger,...

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Get out of here.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the housing crisis continues to spiral out of control; — residential property prices have increased by 3 per cent in the 12 months to February; — residential property prices have increased by 88.5 per cent since early 2013; — high rents and residential property prices are making it increasingly difficult...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be generated by introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of residential properties by trusts, partnerships and companies including real estate investment trusts (REITs) and Irish Real Estate Funds (IREFs) and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (11 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will conduct a review into the current tax exemptions in place for real estate investment trusts and Irish real estate funds with a view to restricting the advantage they enjoy over individual prospective buyers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24234/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: That does not appear to be true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Le beagnach seachtain anuas tá deireadh tragóideach agus cuibhdhe tagtha le polasaí páirtí an Tánaiste agus polasaí an Rialtais. Tá mórchuid na tithe in eastáit chónaithe sa Stát ceannaithe ag ciste infheistíochta idirnáisiúnta. Le beannacht an Rialtais seo, ní íocann na cistí seo cáin ar bith ar...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael created this system, it supported it, it cheerled for it, it rolled out the red carpet for these funds to come in, it turbocharged them and now they are, and have been for years, snatching properties from first-time buyers. The Tánaiste mentioned taxes and dividend withholding taxes. Pension funds do not pay them. The Tánaiste must get real here. We have been raising...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a lorry driver licence application was not processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process and the steps taken by his Department and or the local authority in cases in which a landowner is to be informed of the designation of a special area of conversation on their land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (6 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23523/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhartha ar an ábhar fíorthábhachtach seo anocht sa Dáil agus ar an bpíosa reachtaíochta tábhachtach atá os ár gcomhair. Beidh tionchar mór aige ar obair an Rialtais agus ar an ngeilleagar fosta, ar chaighdeán saoil ár saoránach agus ar an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach does not even know what affordable is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is €500,000 affordable?

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am sharing time with Deputies O'Reilly and Ó Broin. Let me make it clear: the housing crisis is not an accident. It did not happen as the result of some mysterious market forces. We need to call a spade a spade in this House. This housing crisis has happened as a result of the deliberate policies of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. We just have to look at the impact it is having...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (5 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the proposed affordable purchase shared equity scheme under the affordable housing Bill in particular its interaction with the Central Bank’s mortgage lending measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3387/21]