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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is more spin and not enough substance. Will the Minister, Deputy Zappone, stand over the fact that the report on the €391 million figure is being issued today?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The minutes of the meeting.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We learned as we came into the Chamber that in September senior officials in the Department of Health were aware that the cost overrun was reaching a figure of €391 million. It is reported in The Irish Timesand on RTÉ. The minutes are there. We will have the copy when we leave this Chamber. Senior staff of the Department of Health knew that the overrun of that project was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There is a crisis in our health services and in the Government. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Health have proved utterly incapable of resolving the various issues before us. Yesterday, we had general practitioners outside Leinster House due to the lack of Government investment in primary care. Our hospitals have the worst waiting lists right across Europe. Last month, there were...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What we need is proper dialogue before that. Does the Minister accept that the Government's approach to tackling the recruitment and retention crisis so far has failed? Does the Minister accept that pay is an issue and is going to need to be addressed? Will the Minister accept that a process of engagement is needed right now without any preconditions and without any clauses?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs says something needs to shift. I put it to her that what needs to shift is that the Government needs to indicate – it can be done today, right here, right now – that it will enter into negotiations with the INMO on the basis of no preconditions. What the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What we need is meaningful dialogue without preconditions. Will the Minister clarify who is right and who is wrong or is it the case that everybody is right with their differing messages in Cabinet?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Brexit Supports (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement to date his Department has had with the European Commission regarding flexibilities and additional supports from the EU through EU funding programmes and capital investment in view of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5960/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Records (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the actions by staff in his Department that have mistakenly altered documentation (details supplied) on the grounds that the national minimum wage was changed in January 2019 in view of the fact that the relevant pay scale is covered by the employment regulation orders for contract cleaning; when the contractor will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (7 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide funding for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for an implant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5984/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legal Aid (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The long and the short of it is that the Government has moved to cut the amount of support available for struggling homeowners in a case where a bank or vulture fund is blocking a PIP arrangement. It has done so in such a way that no barrister is going to take instructions from a solicitor knowing that the maximum amount payable to him or her is €1,200. Barristers know, because they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legal Aid (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Government has just undermined it. There is no justification for this.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Legal Aid (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This is an absolute scandal. We need to call a spade a spade. This is an attack on vulnerable people - people who find themselves insolvent, people who are going through the insolvency process, and people in respect of whose arrangements a PIP has recommended restructuring, which has been blocked by the bank. The Government has now restricted the fees available in such a way as to prevent...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017, which was approved unanimously by the Dáil in June 2018, is due to be debated in the Seanad today. We heard in recent days that the Government had taken a different position and flip-flopped on the issue and would block the Bill in the Seanad. We have since learned that that is not the approach, but that the Government has instead decided to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Government trying to extend the implementation period?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: He never told the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Is that it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael struggles with accountability.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yesterday, nurses and midwives who are members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, engaged in a 24-hour stoppage due to the complete failure of the Government and the Minister for Health to address the recruitment and retention crisis now gripping our health service. This afternoon will see hundreds of general practitioners, GPs, protesting outside the gates of Leinster...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has mentioned the Government's responsibility to the public finances. Where was its responsibility or that of the Minister when it came to the overrun on the national children's hospital, running to €500 million of taxpayers' money? Where was the responsibility of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it came to one of those major capital projects that has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----on hospital waiting lists. When will the penny drop? This is complete incompetence at ministerial level and departmental level. There is clearly serious dysfunction at the heart of Government and at the heart of these two Departments.