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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I want to go back to an issue-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That is absolutely scandalous. Maybe if the Deputy wants to talk about where Fianna Fáil put the donations it received from the dodgy developers, I will give way.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: It was unbelievable, scandalous.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I want to return to an issue that concerns parents throughout the State in respect of where their children will go on 1 January. There are serious issues in the childcare sector. There have been reports of crèches operating without registration, of staff taking up positions without qualifications and of crèches that will be unable to open their doors on 1 January because of the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: -----where action is taken to take on this industry. The Government needs to stop swallowing the industry's spin. Let us have serious action.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: There are enough ideas from us and from the Alliance for Insurance Reform and others that can actually deal with this crisis.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: There is no voice in Cabinet on insurance.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: There is no voice at Cabinet on insurance.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I accused the industry of lying.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: No. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for being helpful. I accused the industry of spinning and lying. I accused the Taoiseach of swallowing its spin and regurgitating it here on the floor of the Dáil. I am asking him to retract the comments and the claim that insurance premiums have dropped by 27%-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: -----because he now has comprehensive proof in tables Nos. 15 and 16 of the Central Bank Report that they are actually sky-rocketing again.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: It does matter.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach stands accused again of completely spinning on behalf of the industry. Will he, if he has read the report, accept table No. 14? Does he accept that motor insurance premiums have increased every year since 2016? Will he accept that the number of people who are making claims has reduced by 40% and personal injury claims reduced by 20%, facts which dispute the compo culture...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I am begging the Taoiseach on behalf of not only the childcare sector, soft play areas or motorists, but many other sectors which will be affected by this in the new year. There needs to be Cabinet decisions on this. It needs a Cabinet sub-committee, not a talking shop, but an action point-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: There has been a moment of enlightenment and clarity on the part of those in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, who have finally realised the nature of the spin they have been swallowing from the insurance industry for the past couple of years. The reality is that all this information was available to the Taoiseach and Deputy Micheál Martin, and their Deputies, if they wanted to look at...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: -----in taking on this industry in order that we can reduce premiums for motorists and businesses alike?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: It is the CSO.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Budgets (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: 92. To ask the Taoiseach the capital allocation of his Department in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each year. [52582/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a difference in the carbon tax applied to smokeless coal and regular coal. [53357/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (17 Dec 2019)
Pearse Doherty: 332. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred to St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8. [52583/19]