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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (13 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 480. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of the commitment to raising the income threshold on medical cards for persons over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29861/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 608. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a company (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a decision for the community and voluntary stability scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29664/20]

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire agus leis an Aire Stáit. Chuala mé an méid a bhí le rá acu ní ba luaithe. Tá cúpla rud le rá agam le cur leis an méid a dúirt mo chomhghleacaithe, go háirithe an Teachta Ó Snodaigh. Ceann de na rudaí atá iontach deas ná go bhfuil Aire anseo agus muid ag plé le...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday we raised the long-running concern that we have about section 39 workers and the need for the Government to intervene and ensure that thousands of workers secure pay justice. In response, the Taoiseach said that the Ministers for Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance, and wider Government, would continue to examine the situation. I understand that the Minister for Public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It is all in NPHET's letter. Read the letter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: That is what the Tánaiste should have been talking about on RTÉ on Monday.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Following its meeting on Sunday, the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, wrote to Government to outline their concerns about the increasing number of Covid cases throughout the State. It was, and still is, an extremely worrying situation. Since the weekend, there have been a number of large clusters in nursing homes, including one in Convoy in my own constituency. The rate of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste said this should not be a matter of NPHET versus the Government and I agree. Everybody needs to get on the same page. It was not me, however, who went on the national broadcaster to take the legs from under our Chief Medical Officer. It was not me who engaged in that type of dangerous behaviour. I put it to the Tánaiste that, if it had been me, he would be the first...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. It is interesting to see the Minister on that side of the committee room after ten years on the same side.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I wish the Minister good luck in his preparation for budget 2021. These are challenging times, no doubt. I want to pick up on the Chairman's question about the deficit. In the budgetary strategy published on 16 September the Minster outlined that a 4.5% to 5.5% deficit of GDP on a no-policy-change basis included the €9 billion Covid-related expenditure. When the Minister talks of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: So any increase in the deficit would be a budgetary package in excess of those amounts.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It also includes the 900 discretionary-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister mentioned the recovery fund to other members of the committee. Is the recovery fund in excess of the €9 billion Covid-related expenditure or is the recovery fund part of the €9 billion Covid-related expenditure?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: The known Covid expenditure is the €9 billion package, although some of that is unknown in a way.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I understand that is impossible to predict with lockdowns and further restrictions where jobs will be at and what is supposed to be required, but my core question is whether the recovery fund package is in excess of the €9 billion. The Minister was always the person who talked about us not having surprises on budget day, yet he will give us all a surprise in just four days' time. In...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It appears from what the Minister is saying that he is still going to pull the bunny out of the hat next Tuesday, despite everything he said for the past ten years. It is not the way to do budgets. I acknowledge that there are moving parts but he has a sense of the quantum at this stage. That is usually published in the summer economic statement, which he and the Minister for Finance have...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Is it €10 billion or €1 billion?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: It is not about parties; it is about the Oireachtas committee that is tasked with scrutinising the budgetary process. Collectively as a committee - I am not referring to Sinn Féin, the Green Party, Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael - we do not have a clue about the budgetary parameters the Minister is considering for announcement on Tuesday. We do not know whether there will be €6...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Perhaps the clerk could help us by notifying all the committee members that they should read the Sunday newspapers because the Minister is not going to give us any parameters here, which he should do. The parameters will probably be given to the media before the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (8 Oct 2020)

Pearse Doherty: We learnt about the overall figure, €12 billion, from the media.