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Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (20 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 807. To ask the Minister for Health when a patient (details supplied) in Letterkenny University Hospital will be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dun Laoghaire; the current waiting times for such transfers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25322/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This month the Department of Finance published its economic projections. The State will run a combined surplus this year and next of €15 billion. At the same time, the Government tells workers and families they are on their own and there will be no cost-of-living package in this year's budget. Does the Government simply not get it or is it ignoring the plight of ordinary people who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, that is not good enough. The fact is that 2,260 letters were issued. The fact is the letters were issued as part of the implementation of a recommendation of the draft audit. The fact is the draft audit said all of those children should be recalled. The fact is there are 2,260 families out there that are anxious. The fact is none of those families knows whether their child...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The Government needs to deal with this. I know every single person in this Chamber would be appalled at the idea of a young girl being opened up, her bone being chiselled into unnecessarily and left with a scar and pain, but it is the Government's responsibility to provide a pathway and certainty for those families. I ask the Minister a simple question - will the Government ensure that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Fuaireamar amach inné gur seoladh litreacha chuig 2,260 teaghlach faoin scannal tubaisteach maidir le hobráidí chromán na leanaí. Tá tuismitheoirí fós feargach nach bhfuil an t-eolas ón Rialtas ná na hospidéil á thabhairt dóibh. Yesterday we learned the scope and scale of the devastating hip surgery scandal. Some 2,260...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will bring forward an amendment to the defective concrete blocks Act 2022 that would allow the increase in the cap to be applied retrospectively to homeowners who already participate in the defective concrete block grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider how funding is being provided for social housing acquisitions, given the small amount of funding provided to Donegal and the significant need in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24836/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: As my colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn stated, people are waiting seven months for driving tests. As of April, 83,000 people were on the waiting list. Matters are getting worse because 10,000 more joined the list in the past three months. This is simply out of control, and the Government is sitting on its hands while it is happening. In some cases, the impact on these individuals is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: But it mentions the early audit.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Jesus Christ, they are implementing the audit recommendations. Do you not know what has been happening for the past eight weeks?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Do you not know?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: They are implementing the audit recommendations.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Do you not know what is happening? It is disgraceful that you would not do this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: But you are misleading the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You are misleading the Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if the amendment introduced in section 21 of the Finance Bill 2016 which had the expressed aim of preventing businesses with loans which are secured over, or derive their value from, an interest in Irish land from using provisions in section 110 to avoid payment of Irish tax on profits made on Irish property transactions has successfully achieved its stated...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of legal titles of mortgages held by credit servicing firms each year since 2016 where the loan is owned by a separate section 110 special purpose vehicle, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 8 May 2025, the estimated cost of extending each of the tax measures listed in 2026 over and above the projections provided in the Annual Progress Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 May 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 8 May 2025, to clarify that the figure of €75.5 million refers to the actual cost of claims made; the estimated cost if all eligible workers applied for flat-rate expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24830/25]