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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Can the Minister answer-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask the Chair-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not want to answer the question as to whether any of his officials raised the same concerns I have. He prides himself in being able to answer questions.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is obvious that the Minister's officials had the same concerns.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister should just answer the question.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On a point of order-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Chairman is always fair, and I believe I stayed within my five minutes in terms of the questions. I asked two further questions that the Minister should be allowed to answer. They were about the recommendations of the Wright report, and whether all advice to the Minister is written down and available after the five-year period under freedom of information provisions. It...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is being done in spite of me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point. In the week leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Dáil, we need to recognise the primacy of this House and have the debate here, not through briefings to the media or individual briefings to different political parties. It should enter this space early tomorrow, when we will have a proper and full...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Deputy did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach was also Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Less than 3% of the staff, six out of 211 whole-time equivalents in the Taoiseach's Department are working specifically on Brexit contingency planning. As we enter a period where the clock is running down on our nearest neighbours regarding its decision on whether to accept or reject the withdrawal agreement, we need to question whether that is the appropriate allocation of staff given some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: In the same vein, the response of the Taoiseach earlier that this will be the best hospital and will last for 100 years is fine and great. We need the hospital and nobody objects to that but the issue here is the runaway cost. He described this project back in 2014-2015 as spectacular, and it will be spectacular when constructed. He said it would cost €650 million and would be fully...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We cannot catch any fish in Donegal.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. As outlined, the Taoiseach received the commission's fifth interim report in November. The commission has sought an extension until the end of March 2020 but the Taoiseach has not made a decision on granting that extension at this point in time. He suggests that the commission of investigation is likely to cost in excess of €30 million and I ask...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: There is considerable concern among many parents about meningitis and the fact that a number of children - I understand it is three - have died in recent weeks as a result of contracting meningitis. We know from the programme for Government that there was an extended vaccination for meningitis B for children born after October 2016. for children born before that date, however, parents have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the Ceann Comhairle asked for the Business Committee to discuss the issue Deputy Micheál Martin raised. The substantive issue is that we address this issue with seriousness-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: -----and urgency. I am asking for clarification that the proposal we made before the Business Committee, and that I make again, that the debate on the preparedness for a no-deal Brexit take place on Wednesday, will also be discussed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Not agreed. I wish to object to Wednesday's business. While we will have a briefing later from the Government on preparedness for Brexit in a no-deal scenario, and while there will be statements on Thursday with five minutes of questions from each grouping at the end, we have argued that these statements should take place tomorrow, Wednesday. A vote is to take place in the House of Commons...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. Our representative put forward the proposal that the debate should take place on Wednesday - I am sure the Ceann Comhairle is aware of this, although I am not sure whether he was at the meeting - but he argued that there should be more urgency than is being shown in the proposed business before us. That is why I rise today. We were not in a majority at that meeting. I am making the...