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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Unfortunately, the Government is not making the appropriate response to this matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Justice and Equality refused to meet the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On a separate matter. He actually said there was no allegation of extortion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On Christmas Eve 2016, my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, sent correspondence to the Garda; the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald; the then Minister of State with responsibility for communities, Deputy Catherine Byrne; Dublin City Council and the current Tánaiste, who was then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. The correspondence...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The matter was raised with the Tánaiste when he was the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. We have the email from Christmas Eve 2016 and it is addressed to the email address of the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. As there was no action arising from that, a further email was issued on 5 January, again address to the Minister....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 23. To ask the Minister for Health the expected completion date and projected cost of the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39624/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 85. To ask the Minister for Health if an independent clinical review will be launched into recent reports of apparent failings in the care provided to a number of women at the gynaecology department, Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal. [41170/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Shared Services (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has ceased sharing information with Tusla due to differences of opinion on the protocols. [41395/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the investigation by his Department into environmental concerns at a farm (details supplied) has been concluded; and if so, the outcome of same. [41396/19]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Section 5 refers to the appointment of a chairperson to the commission. The chairperson will have specific designated functions under law, including annual reports and so on. Section 5(4E) refers to the temporary incapacity of a chairperson. I presume this makes sense, given the statutory function that we assign to it, that if the chairperson is not available those functions will need to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In terms of the Tax Appeals Commission we would have two chairpersons. Would it be a requirement that the other chairperson would have to stand down during a period of incapacity or would two chairpersons be appointed? Would there be a point at which there are two chairpersons, legally? The provision should only provide for an acting chairperson as opposed to a chairperson. I believe one...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In all circumstances when a chairperson is appointed under section (4E), it is due to the person being "temporarily unable to act as chairperson". Does this require the original chairperson to stand down from that position for the duration of the temporary basis?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Let us say I was a chairperson who had been appointed for a seven-year duration and I had to undergo treatment for a serious illness that required me to recover for a period of maybe six months or a year. As a result I would be unable to carry out some of the legal functions and a new person would be appointed. What would happen to me? Would I be required, as the original chairperson, to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that the Minister will consider the matter and maybe return to it on Report Stage. I wish to highlight the fact that there would be issues concerning remuneration and entitlement. Also, I do not like the heading as the provision refers to incapacity. The text is probably better but not, in my view, completely acceptable either because the heading is "Temporary Incapacity of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Tax Appeals and Prospectus Regulation) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if a referral for respite services for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been received; if so, when respite will be offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41354/19]

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: These are the simple choices to be made. It is not fantasy economics and has nothing to do with Brexit. It is about the choices Sinn Féin would have made which, unfortunately, the Minister did not. He is showing the ideological position of Fine Gael, whereby he has put the interests of the elites above the interests of ordinary people. Instead of tackling the inequality in our...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This budget could, and should, have given workers and families a break but it has not. Instead of giving workers and families a break, and securing Ireland’s future, the Government has underestimated the economic challenge of Brexit, and has done nothing to ease the pressure on workers and their families. On top of out-of-control rents, rip-off insurance premiums and unaffordable...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What a surprise.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (8 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a follow-up meeting between his Department, OPW officials, local Oireachtas members and a committee (details supplied) in County Donegal is being planned to discuss a major capital flood mitigation project; if so, when such a meeting will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40763/19]