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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Given that the Taoiseach raised Covid supports, it is reported that the Cabinet has agreed to start to cut the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, from the end of June. Could he comment on whether that is the direction of travel in terms of Government policy on the PUP? What would he say to all of those who have been made unemployed as a result of the pandemic, some who cannot go back to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: This is my last question. We all want restrictions to be lifted in line with the public health advice and for people to be able to get back to work, but we also know that in the third quarter of this year 180,000 people are projected to be unemployed as a result of the pandemic restrictions due to Covid. It is outlined in the stability programme update that the pandemic unemployment payment...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: No, I am asking the Taoiseach a question. He can give the commitment if he wants.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Last month, the Dáil unanimously supported an Teachta Aengus Ó Snodaigh's legislation to preserve and revitalise Moore Street in Dublin as a cultural quarter. At its meeting earlier this month, Dublin City Council voted unanimously to make Moore Street an architectural conservation area, a decision which imposes strict planning controls on the demolition of buildings in the area....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I want to raise the issue of Dolphin Trust with the Tánaiste this morning. It is a Ponzi scheme, a scam that has 1,800 Irish victims who are to lose up to €108 million in pension savings. These are not well-heeled or seasoned investors, but ordinary people, some of whom have lost all of their life savings and pensions. This centres around a Germany company called Dolphin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure those who have lost their life savings will be relieved that the Tánaiste sympathises with them but what they would rather have seen is action. In 2016, it was not a secret that the Central Bank was raising concerns regarding the high-risk loan notes and, indeed, Wealth Options. This was reported in the Irish Independentin 2016 by Mr. Charlie Weston and I am sure officials in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (22 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 28. To ask the Minister for Finance if the prices of properties that have undergone full remediation under the financial assistance scheme for the remediation of damaged dwellings due to defective concrete blocks have recovered to reflect remediation; and if his attention has been drawn to any policy retail banks have towards providing mortgages for properties that have undergone full...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for amendments to the Judicial Council Act 2019, to provide for the making of regulations to require insurance providers to provide information to the Central Bank of Ireland relating to the effect of personal injuries guidelines and related matters. A Cheann Comhairle, you will be aware that the personal...

Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the expenditure ceilings outlined in the Stability Programme Update 2021 will deliver commitments made in the Programme for Government and under the Climate Action Plan 2019; if he will disaggregate the cost of those commitments under the expenditure ceilings in the Stability Programme Update 2021; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the findings made by a programme (details supplied) detailing the waste of public money in the Office of Public Works; the action that has been taken since within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Brexit Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 217. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason sole traders are excluded from the ready for customs grant; if an alternative grant is available for sole traders for such costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20799/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20789/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 457. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is planned to recommence driving lessons for essential workers who are yet to complete the required driving lessons to allow them to apply for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 455. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a trailer licence category was removed from a driver licence in the case of a person; if it will be reinstated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20806/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20807/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 458. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when an exchange transport manager CPC IRL-EU certificate will issue for a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20809/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 518. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposal with regard to the addition at European Council level of the words, by the use of secondary markets, to Ireland's 2018 country specific recommendations was made by Ireland; if not, the way that Ireland voted on the amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20004/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta (21 Apr 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 665. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht faoi aon phlean ag an Roinn faoi láthair maidir le coláistí samhraidh sa Ghaeltacht in 2021; an bhfuil maoiniú curtha i leataobh do mhná agus fir tí mura bhfuil na cúrsaí sin á reáchtáil mar gheall ar Covid-19; an bhfuil an tAire sásta ráthaíocht a chur ar...