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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (18 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures cancelled by speciality at Letterkenny University Hospital for each month in 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53104/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (18 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding has been received as part of the sports capital programme (details supplied) for shared playing and recreational facilities in County Donegal; if his attention has been drawn to the merits of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53230/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Court Orders (18 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 581. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Tusla will carry out a section 20 report as ordered in May 2017 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52811/18]

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.

Centenary of 1918 General Election: Statements (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: As the Tánaiste knows, Permanent TSB, a majority State-owned bank is selling on over 6,000 loans. The mortgage holders involved are fully meeting their restructured arrangements. The bank is doing this contrary to the Central Bank's code of practice on the transfer of mortgages. That code holds that a loan secured by a mortgage on residential property may not be transferred without...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: No they are not. We have the highest rent increases in Dublin since 2015. Read the report. The rate is 9.5%.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste is misleading the House. We have the highest rent increases in Dublin since quarter 1 of 2015 and to suggest that the Government's measures are working-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: -----is ridiculous.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Slowing the pace. The rate of increase 9.5%. The rate of increase in respect of apartments in Dublin is 12%.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Since the last general election we have been subject to the concoction that is the confidence and supply deal between the Tánaiste's party and Fianna Fáil. Last night the leader of Fianna Fáil confirmed that he has once again bent the knee to renew Fine Gael's deal for another year. On the one hand he is quite happy to come to the House and criticise the Government week in,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael opposed our proposal to introduce tax relief for renters and, along with Fianna Fáil, has continuously voted down the Focus Ireland amendment that would stop landlords evicting families into homelessness. Shame on both parties. We need real and meaningful action to tackle the housing crisis. We need a change in direction and we need that change fast. Now that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Let there be no doubt that we will keep the Government under pressure and we will scrutinise it because we are the real Opposition in this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste talks of vulnerability and carnage, but the vulnerable people I speak of are those 4,000 children in emergency accommodation. Disgracefully, many of them-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: -----will be waking up on Christmas Day in a hotel, for the third year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is the carnage that has been left behind by the confidence and supply arrangement. I have asked the Tánaiste what the Government is going to do about spiralling rents. In Dublin it is €1,692 more expensive to rent a house now than it was this time last year. Not a single affordable or cost rental house has been delivered by the Tánaiste's Government or by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: This is more of thestatus quo.The Tánaiste talks of proposals. The Focus Ireland amendment was a sensible proposal. It provided that landlords who received tax reliefs should not be allowed to evict people into homelessness. Who in God's name could refuse to accept that? I will say who. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil could, and shame on them for doing so. The people for whom they...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil d'achan Teachta a labhair ar an ábhar seo agus faoi choinne na tacaíochta a thug an mhórchuid acu faoi choinne an Bhille seo, go hairithe an tacaíocht ó mo chomhleacaithe i Sinn Féin agus ó Deputy Michael McGrath agus an Teachta Murphy ó Fhianna Fáil a labhair ar son an Bhille. I acknowledge all...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It has been six and a half years since I brought the Bill before the House. Is it not telling what the then Minister of State with responsibility, the former Deputy Brian Hayes of Fine Gael, told me? He said:[T]his issue must be examined carefully to ensure the solution proposed does not adversely affect the most vulnerable members of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: How naive is the Taoiseach.