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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the new mobile phone mast will be installed at Buncrana Garda station. [21621/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the planned installation of 3G and 4G technology in Buncrana Garda station can be upgraded to 5G in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21622/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tenders received for the provision of respite services at a centre (details supplied) with respect to the most recent competition for the procurement of the services; the name of the organisation in the case of each tender submission received; the respite hours each organisation is willing to provide per week; if submissions stipulated a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 421. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a MRI scan to be carried out at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21845/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 422. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is on the routine or urgent waiting list for a knee operation to be carried out in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21855/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 423. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for a knee operation to be carried out in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21856/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of abolishing a charge (details supplied). [21957/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Meetings (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason she has not made herself available to receive a petition in person from a service provider (details supplied) in County Donegal; if she will be available in future to meet with representatives from the organisation with a view to discussing service provision, funding and other related matters; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of an increase in bands of employer's and employee's PRSI to reflect a minimum wage of €11.80 per hour. [21930/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be raised by introducing a new employers’ rate of PRSI of 12.75%, 13.75%, 14.75% and 15.75%, respectively on the portion of salary paid in excess of €100,000 per annum. [21950/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (21 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated additional revenue that would be raised by each extra one percentage point on the vacant site levy. [21616/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday the British Secretary of State for Defence, Penny Mordaunt, announced measures to afford British soldiers and veterans protection from prosecution of crimes. Initial reports of this plan indicated that these laws would not be extended to the North but that has since changed. Speaking last night, Ms Mordaunt said that she thinks that the plans should cover the North. Any attempt...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With every week that passes, the housing crisis continues to spiral out of control. We see rents and house prices rising, social housing need continuing to grow and the number of children and adults in emergency accommodation at record levels. By every meaningful measure, the Government's housing plan is failing, yet every time a Deputy raises the issue of the housing crisis, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste has listed a number of measures, but even by the Government's own inadequate targets, it is already failing to meet those targets by 3,000 homes. This just shows how out of touch this Government is and how it fails to grasp the reality of the housing crisis unfolding and engulfing and weighing down so heavily on so many families right across the State. It is a Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----developing policies for people who are struggling.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The reality is that those on the Government benches will never have to struggle. I ask every one of those heckling me to put himself or herself in the shoes of the mother paying €1,500 in rent per month, paying some of the highest childcare costs in the European Union, being fleeced-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----by her insurance company and trying to prepare for her daughter's First Holy Communion at the weekend.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Would a three-year rent freeze and a rent relief of one month's rent each year for the next three years not be beneficial to her? Would it not be appropriate to give her that safety net and legislate to ensure she and her family, her children, will not be evicted into homelessness?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This is the type of action we need, not heckling from the Government benches.