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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is not an answer. The Government is the major shareholder.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Speaking at the Banking and Payments Federation, the deputy governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Ed Sibley, said that Irish bankers were displaying echoes of pre-crisis arrogance. My view is that it never left them and I am glad that the penny is dropping in the Central Bank. He went on to say the banks were hitting mortgage holders with double the interest rates needed for them to make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Earlier the HSE published its winter plan in an attempt to tackle overcrowding and deal with faster patient discharges. We are at the point where every day is winter in our hospitals because of overcrowding, patients on trolleys and undervalued staff trying their best on the front line. That is the state of the health service every day of the year. Patients face another difficult winter in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In my constituency - I will finish on this - 4,500 patients so far this year have gone without a bed, despite the fact that ten beds in that hospital cannot be opened because of the recruitment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When will the Government get to grips with the real issue here, make the proper investment, and lift the recruitment freeze that is crushing our hospitals and putting serious pressure on front-line staff and patients?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste simply does not get it. He does not get the scale of the crisis. Professor Malone, the master of the Rotunda, summed it up well in speaking toThe Irish Timestoday when he stated, "The dignity of patients doesn’t seem to resonate with decision-makers." The Tánaiste can give us the spin all he wants. Last year, Ministers announced the opening of 20 beds in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What we need is less spin and more action. We do not need more debate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Patients who are lying on trolleys and their families want action from the Government and less spin.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It would take 2 million hours to clear the waiting lists. The Government is planning to fail.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There are fewer nurses and fewer midwives.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Did the professor withdraw his assertion that the lives of newborns are at risk in the hospital as a result of the Government's policies?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That is the reality.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister indicate when the public spending code will be published and whether it will in any way, shape or form apply when trying to ensure that the projects under way are not allowed to absorb more taxpayers' money?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When will the Minister be able to give us an assurance? When will he have the figures? This has been going on on his watch for four years. The project has increased by more than €1 billion, yet he somehow takes offence at my questioning him about an overrun that is continuing to escalate on his watch. I am entitled and right to ask these questions on behalf of taxpayers. I would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: When can the Minister give a commitment that it will not exceed €2 billion?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In fairness, I asked the question three times. The Minister will not give us a timeframe for when he can give a commitment that the project will not escalate further.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the reviewed and revised public spending code will be published, in view of repeated overruns in large-scale capital projects; the way in which it will address the deficiencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46895/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Robert Watt, recently acknowledged that the State had a problem in delivering large capital projects at a cost of more than €100 million. He said a new public spending code was needed to address cost overruns on projects costing more than €100 million and that it was to be published in the following...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Spending Code (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is clear that a new public spending code is required. It has been required for a long time, but I am still no clearer on when it will be published. The Minister has said he will give it his attention after the Finance Bill is passed. Two months ago, its publication was promised in the next number of weeks. I am sure that Mr. Robert Watt knew there would be a budget and a finance Bill....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital projects that are to be delayed or deferred in the years of the National Development Plan as a result of cost overruns such as the national children’s hospital and National Broadband Plan, which the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council calculates could reduce funding for capital projects by as much as €17 billion; and...