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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Families are in desperate need and the Minister has sat on his hands for two years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: For the record, I am only putting the words of the families on the record; they are not my words.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Tá seacht mbliana ann ó thug an Taoiseach nuair a bhí sé ina Aire Sláinte gealltanas nach mbeadh aon pháiste ag fanacht níos faide ná ceithre mhí le haghaidh máinliacht scolóise a d’athródh an saol a bhí acu. Briseadh an gealltanas sin arís agus arís. Tá a fhios againn anois nach bhfuil an t-airgead a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am not sure whether the Tánaiste has just listed out the incompetences in terms of the Minister for Health. Let us boil this down to what happened. The Minister was told by CHI that if he gave it €19 million, it would reduce the waiting list so that nobody would wait more than four months. The Minister gave CHI the money. Within weeks, the parents and the advocates were...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: To go back to the example I gave, which was from budget day in 2019 for budget 2020, the Minister for Finance delivered the budget and the junior Minister represented him at the ECOFIN meeting. It is not the case. Junior Ministers have represented the Minister for Finance. The Eurogroup meeting is the day before, with the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. There is no reason he cannot be here. He...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Hang on.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is misleading.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Only motor insurance has gone down. Public liability insurance has not gone down. We are talking about-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State said it has gone down drastically.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is an insult to the companies-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is misleading.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is completely and utterly misleading and companies will be annoyed about what the Minister of State said.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the cost of insurance; if he will support legislative proposals through the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021 to ensure that reduced claims costs are passed onto insurance consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28559/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is an issue I have raised numerous times. It is about insurance costs. The insurance industry continues to rip-off motorists and small businesses with high prices. Since 2020 the insurance industry has recorded sky-high profits while paying out dividends to their shareholders. For years the insurance industry called for reforms to reduce the cost of claims. This is what it got...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is perfect. I am sure the Minister of State's new boss will be as good to him as his predecessors were. I will note that the Minister has not started in the same way as his predecessors did. When there was a clash with the ECOFIN meeting and the budget in the past his predecessor asked the Minister of State at the Department of Finance to travel to the ECOFIN meeting. The Minister of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The previous example was on budget day.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: So the Minister will push ahead with pushing up petrol and diesel prices on 1 August and again in October despite his predecessor giving indications that this was likely not to happen. That would be my reading of it in terms of the language and tone he was using. That is really disappointing. Petrol prices are 23% higher than three years ago. Diesel prices are 28% higher. We have never...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Two years ago it was Covid and exceptional circumstances so there was an early budget. I am making the point that the Minister is deciding to go into the budget without sight of the crucial September tax returns, which every previous Minister for Finance has said is crucial to the input of the budget. That is fine if they want to bring it forward but let us not pretend it is because of a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: But the Government will not have the September figures.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (4 Jul 2024)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify, every Minister for Finance knows that the September returns are crucial. Deputy Chambers knows this as well. We know the importance of corporation tax here. Companies have to file by September. Is he telling this House that he is bringing forward the budget without sight of the September returns? This is what it appears to be. That is fine if he is making that decision but...