Results 101-120 of 1,256 for long speaker:Pearse Doherty

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: On research and development tax credits, we have been arguing for a long time that they should be focused on SMEs and there should be additional supports in place in that regard. In fairness to the previous Minister, he accepted one of our proposals for a higher rate for SMEs. Even though it was legislated for, it could not be implemented because of state aid rules and complexity that was...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome this long-promised and long-awaited legislation. We have been waiting over a year for it and there have been multiple promised delivery dates that were later than what farmers would have wished for, particularly in light of the current inflationary pressures and input costs. An appropriate and empowered sectoral regulator has the potential to finally deliver a level playing field...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (19 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...the north west. That is probably a discussion for another day, but it is the principle we have to have first. I remember meeting the European Commissioner for Transport about 15 years ago, long before I was elected to Dáil Éireann. I showed him a map of Ireland. He pointed to the north west on the map and asked whether it was a barren area because there were no rail lines...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...increase the number of public beds and speed up admissions and discharges. We need to ramp up the number of training places to ensure we recruit and retain the required number of healthcare staff. A long-term workforce development plan is needed urgently. This can be done but the truth is that successive Governments have failed our health service for far too long. Sinn Féin has a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The funds are not breaking the contract. They always had the ability to do this, just like the banks have the ability to pass on interest rate hikes, which they are not doing because they have long-term interest. The funds have no such interest. That is why family homes should never have been allowed to be in the hands of vulture funds. We have people who are going to get another letter...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...been raised today because it has been raised with me on more than one occasion. Mr. Cody's opening statement began with e-gambling. I am not sure why that was the case; perhaps someone asked him to address that issue. A long-overdue gambling law will be enacted next year because the existing law dates back to 1931. We have gaming companies that are operating in this State and paying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Office of the Revenue Commissioners: Engagement (14 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Revenue won a large, long-running court case recently regarding Louis Fitzgerald; it took seven years to get €400,000 of a domicile levy. Does Revenue have to pay the legal costs?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...be situations, and we discussed this last week, whereby the Central Bank of Ireland will decide not to pursue an action because of resources. This is the kind of situation where there could be a long, drawn-out process. The Central Bank may go in and say, “Look. just stop it and we will not hold you to account, your name will not be published and you will not have any black mark...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that long-term illnesses such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not included in the long-term illness scheme; if he will review this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60225/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...provided to these children. These are life-changing interventions. They are essential if our children are to reach their full potential, to thrive and to participate in their communities. If they are not provided, the quality of life for thousands of children and young people is profoundly affected and can have long-lasting consequences for them. The HSE is currently reorganising...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...of the current monetary and interest rate policies when the key drivers of inflation, as they identified, are supply rather than demand driven and are likely temporary, as they suggested? How long is temporary given that those monetary policies are now driving up interest rates and causing pressure on households?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...their basic pay. These banks are profitable. Therefore, I will make it clear to the Minister and again, Deputy Barry is completely right in this. There is a trajectory in the Government. I put it to the Minister, although he will not be here long enough to see this out, that this is and always was the plan. That is the reality. The reality is that the shareholding of AIB will be...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...cannot access because they do not have the resources to put into their pension at that level. We are funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of euro gold-plated pensions. That should stop. I have long argued with the Minister that this can be done in terms of the standard fund threshold and the earning limits. There are ways and mechanisms to ensure that the distributional impact...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...only been in Government for the guts of three years, but if a person applies for that grant today it will be 2025 and 2026 before the person can actually get it. I imagine the Green Party would be long out of Government by that stage. In his reply, the Minister talked about the challenges in building up capacity. One could swear that the Minister had just landed around the Cabinet...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...110 companies. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare recommended a review of the tax treatment of section 110 companies and the Minister committed to that in his budget speech. Such a review is long overdue and Sinn Féin has been calling for one year after year, most recently in June 2021. These calls have been repeatedly ignored by the Minister and his Government. There is a...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...questionable. Sinn Féin has argued, and I am sure Deputy Boyd Barrett and People Before Profit have argued, for years with regard to the vacant property tax. It is frustrating it has taken so long to convince the Government of the merits of something and the need to do something. We finally have it. This could have had an impact if the Government had listened a number of years ago...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...war in Ukraine were felt by customers about eight or nine months afterwards and so on and so forth. That is why there will be a lag even when things, hopefully, resolve, and there will still be a long tail to the issues in respect of high energy costs. I am not questioning the Minister's figures at all. The only point I am making is that his accusations and the mud he threw have no...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I want to be associated with those comments. These have been three long days. Thankfully, we have had the practice in the past number of years not to have a guillotine. There was a kind of guillotine this year for reasons there had to be and we facilitated that. The committee has worked well for the past three days in ensuring that all sections, as best as we could, were dealt with and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I will move amendment No. 16 later on. We have long argued for a refundable tax credit for renters. In the last session on the Finance Bill, I put it to the Minister that his policies and those of his Government had led to runaway rents and that families, renters and individuals are under great financial pressure as a result of the inaction of his Government. In one incident, the Cabinet...