Results 81-100 of 35,829 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: What does he say about the fact 3,000 social and affordable homes will not be delivered, as they should be delivered and as people want to deliver them, because of the delays and red tape in the Department?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I asked you twice whether you met the targets.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: It has been 14 years and you have nothing to show for it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Éireoidh teipeanna tithíochta an Rialtais níos measa mar níl sé in ann infreastruchtúr bunúsach a phleanáil agus a bhainistiú i gceart. Tá fadhbanna ann inár ngréasán uisce agus leictreachais ag cur moill ar na mílte tithe agus á gcur i mbaol. For years we have listened to the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Some inflation is absolutely beyond our control. Other high prices are as result of price gouging or Government failures. Our pillar banks had combined profits of €5 billion last year, much of that came from the fact homeowners and savers were short-changed. We have double digit rent increases. New rents outside of Dublin are rising by 9% with 12 counties experiencing double digit...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Yet it was proper for the Minister for Finance to sign off on the first piece of legislation he introduced, which was to give a big increase to junior Ministers and increase the number of super junior Ministers, which is something we are challenging in the courts. Inflation is also caused by the Government. When the Government decided to increase the carbon tax, it put up the price of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I do.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I have.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I absolutely-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: No. I did not say that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I did not say that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The question I continue to raise relates to when the Government is going to deal with the issue of the costs that people are paying for motor insurance and home insurance and that sports groups, organisations, community groups and small businesses the length and breadth of this State are paying for public liability insurance. The profits being made by the industry are eye-watering. When...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Industry (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The problem here - and this is not the first time I have highlighted it - is that I, on behalf of Sinn Féin and the Alliance for Insurance Reform, said we needed commitments from the insurance industry that if reforms were introduced, then premiums needed to be reduced. The Minister's former party leader, Leo Varadkar, gave headlines to the newspapers six or seven years ago to the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of rising costs and higher prices hitting households, to outline the surplus that the State will run in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28805/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Data (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister outline the surplus the State will run in 2025? That is in the context of the Government ruling out a cost-of-living package in the budget. We have heard this from the Minister and the Taoiseach. It is a reflection of a Government that is out of touch and that does not understand the real pressures ordinary people are under. This is despite surpluses of billions of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Financial Services (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true. The Minister said there is no discretion for the Central Bank when the information in the prospectus is accurate and it must approve it. That is not the case. What the Minister failed to admit is the Governor of the Central Bank said that there are three ways it can not approve it - one, the information is insufficient in the prospectus; two, the existence of EU sanctions...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Financial Services (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's response is pathetic. The facts are - and he knows it - the Central Bank has facilitated the sale of Israeli war bonds. That is a fact. Nobody in this House disputes that. The fact is the Governor said that to stop that, he needs national restrictive measures. The fact is the Minister's Government will not do it. Maybe he had another call with an Israeli minister to...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Financial Services (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I did.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Financial Services (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I said that earlier.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Financial Services (29 May 2025)
Pearse Doherty: I said that earlier.