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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Government Expenditure (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the pre-committed capital expenditure in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [50101/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 402. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the frustration expressed by community pharmacists due to the failure to restore the levels of fees previously paid to the sector for the provision of medicines and services which were reduced under FEMPI; if his attention has been further drawn to claims made by unions representing the sector that a failure to reverse the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Dec 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive confirmation if a balance of payment is owing from their UK state pension made to the authorities here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49949/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We are not even into December yet and there are unbearable pressures on our hospitals. Like many, I read the account of the Tánaiste's parliamentary colleague who was embarrassed at the overcrowding in the emergency department in Crumlin. The question that many of us are asking is what planet has the Government been living on for the past number of years. This has been the lived...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The solution is a rent freeze.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin has been arguing that for three years and the Government has denied it with the support of Fianna Fáil. Rents have gone up by €5,000 as a result of Government inaction.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Those people are homeless because of increasing rents.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government could do both. It could introduce the rent freeze and invest in additional housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: As my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, laid out to the House yesterday, the Government's housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland, is in its fourth year. The results are stark. Homelessness is up 67% while more than 10,000 of our citizens are homeless. That is the new normal under Fine Gael in the country with the fastest growing economy in Europe. The number of homeless children has increased by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is time the Tánaiste took his head out of the sand and got the point. His plan is not working. No matter how much spin and statistics he puts out, it does not wash.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is that new rents in Dublin city cost more than €2,000. In the Tánaiste's own home city of Cork, they are €1,300. He may think those levels of rent are acceptable but they are not acceptable to ordinary people. The reality is that, since this Government took office, homelessness has increased by more than 67% and child homelessness has increased by 81%. More...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will try to be as brief as possible. I thank the witness for presenting to the committee. There is not much of a silver lining when we are coming at Brexit and the tables in the presentation are quite clear in that respect. I was trying to see a positive indicator in any of the data but they are all negative or neutral. Is it the view of the ESRI that a deal scenario is the most likely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I spent the start of this week campaigning in the North with our candidate, Elisha McCallion, in advance of the elections. We visited a number of businesses and could clearly see that major contracts had been lost. Other businesses had to secure premises on the other side of the Border at considerable expense in the event of a no-deal scenario. The lack of consumer confidence in smaller...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Table 3 gives detail on expectations in a deal, no-deal and disorderly Brexit scenario. I agree that the most likely outcome is a deal scenario, although one should never second-guess what can happen across the water and how they may approach things in the future. Let us look at the deal scenario. There is no good news story in a deal scenario other than that it is significantly better...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Budget 2020 was presented and voted upon a couple of weeks ago. It looked at a no-deal scenario, examined Brexit contingency and mitigation measures, and made significant funding available. We are discussing a deal scenario as opposed to a no-deal scenario and a deal is probably the best-case scenario for this State aside from reversing Brexit. Our guests are clearly outlining that these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (28 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The withdrawal agreement will result in a border in the Irish Sea. There will be a significant impact on imports and exports to and from the North if Brexit is followed by deviations between the British and Irish markets. Will this result in a shift in the trading and economic relationships between the North and Britain and between the North and the South? How could policy responses from us...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has to answer a question like that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That just shows the attitude of the Government-----