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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ..., that was commissioned and published by the Department back in February of 2019. That report states: There is a risk that, should BTR [buy-to-rent] investment continue at current growth rates, market forces would over the long-term create socio-economic polarisation in some urban areas. Under such a scenario average income earners would be priced-out of purchasing or renting from the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...figures over the years, and while the number of commencements has increased this year, they are going in the wrong direction, as I think he will acknowledge. The Minister has been at the helm for so long, and we have a housing crisis that has happened not because of a war in Ukraine or a pandemic that spread across the globe but because of policies Governments introduced. This is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...for anybody to understand families having to live in those houses. What is happening in Donegal is ridiculous. These houses are not safe and something will happen. It has been going on for far too long. On this issue there must be a scheme for those who have not had the defects addressed and for those who have. This is the intention behind Deputy Nash's amendment. We need to make...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...much-needed relief in their transport costs and we will again, through this Finance Bill, encourage the Government to do the right thing and reduce the cost of petrol and diesel by the maximum amount allowable under the EU rules, with the suspension of the fuel rebate alongside it. It is unfortunate that the Government has once again ignored the concern of the one third of households...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...xe9;ile agus an fhoireann iomlán atá in éindí leis. Tá míle fáilte rompu agus tá súil agam go mbainfidh siad sult as an turas. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. Many have waited a long time for the introduction of this legislation, too long a time. All customers, whatever the company, product or service concerned,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...the impact of the huge increases in bills and the impact of winter. The weather has started to turn. It is getting colder. Winter is nearly here and workers and families need certainty. The plan to introduce a ban on disconnections for bill-pay customers from December until February is not good enough. It leaves people waiting far too long for protection and the timespan is too...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...boy who has a rare syndrome involving physical and intellectual disability. His mother first asked for an autism assessment when he was six years old and beginning primary school. He got that assessment this summer as he became a teenager, following seven long years of uncertainty and barely in time to make applications for secondary school. Due to this shocking delay, Uisneach did not...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...package that was fair. That could have been done by cutting the USC, by ensuring that we put money into the pockets of middle-income and low-income earners, and we would have made sure that people earning more than €100,000 were not benefiting more than four times than those people in the squeezed middle were benefiting. This, along with our cost-of-living payments would have put...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...; ag teacht ar oibrithe agus ar theaghlaigh faoin ghéarchéim costais mhaireachtála is measa le tamall fada agus an titim is mó ar chaighdeán maireachtála ó tharla an timpiste airgeadais. This cost-of-living crisis is not new but has been with us for some time. Already having to contend with unaffordable housing and childcare costs, low pay and long...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation Report: Statements (14 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...agus achoimre a dhéanamh ar cad chuige a raibh an coimisiún bunaithe sa chéad dul síos leis an bhfiosrúchán seo a dhéanamh, anois go bhfuil sé foilsithe sa tseachtain a chuaigh thart. I welcome the opportunity to speak following the long-awaited publication of the commission of investigation concerning the Siteserv transaction, which took place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: As long as Dr. Hunt is CEO, cash services will be there if the community wants them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...that Bank of Ireland closed the branches and then took away the ATM machines. It goes against the grain of access to cash as well as environmental issues. People have to travel on hour-long journeys now to get cash. I have recently seen with my own eyes people queuing outside banks. It is crazy stuff. People cannot get into a bank with the queues that are outside them because all of...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...are not separate to the economy but are pillars of an inclusive economy It is important that we reflect on these challenges in the context of the summer economic statement and the budgetary strategy in the next year and the years ahead. We do not have the time; people cannot afford for these challenges to be put on the long finger or made worse by the continuation of failed Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...all be back here in good health, safe and sound, for the next session in the autumn. Over the past few days we have seen effigies of my party colleagues, Deputy McDonald and Ms Michelle O'Neill MLA, along with the Alliance Party Leader, Ms Naomi Long MLA, in addition to our national flag being burned on unionist bonfires. This is not culture; it is a hate crime. It is unacceptable....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Welfare Services (14 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...been championing the issue of making sure that people can access the payment online. I understand that the Minister responded to the call earlier. That is one solution. It should have been done long before now. Deputy Kerrane has been calling for this for some time. Does the Minister have any other solutions or will she take up that proposal, along with other solutions, to alleviate...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...to be elected to this House are messengers of the people. This is not our amendment. This is not my amendment, and while my name and those of Deputies Ó Broin, Conway-Walsh, Mac Lochlainn, along with other colleagues are on it, this is the people's amendment. These 80 amendments come from the people. Not only do they come from the people, they come from the people who are most...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...saying they cannot support this legislation unless there are changes to it. They outline in their statement the frustration, engagement, false dawns and false promises and how they have been led along. Despite all of that, we have legislation that is itself defective and will not meet the needs of countless people in my county and right across the west coast and elsewhere. If we take...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...doing, which is lending to individuals and making a return for shareholders, while also meeting the needs of ordinary people, businesses and the economy. This situation has dogged the banking sector for so long, but it is its fault. The banks are continuing to breach the regulations and continuing to act in the way they have. I fear this committee will be dealing with these issues for...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine, but regarding the directors on the board of AIB whom the Minister has appointed and reappointed, how long have they now served on the board of the bank?