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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.

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a chur in iúl as a bheith in ann labhairt ar an rún seo anocht. Tréaslaím le mo chomhghleacaithe, Teachta John Brady agus Teachta Denise Mitchell, as an cheist seo a chur chun tosaigh sa Dáil anocht. As the Minister of State is aware, JobPath began in July 2015. It was heralded at that time by Government as...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Unlike Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin not be supporting this motion. Sinn Féin will oppose this motion and will vote against it. We heard from the Minister of State about SOFAs. Basically, SOFAs grant immunities to soldiers in the face of prosecution and give them protection from local courts and local justice systems in order that they be returned to their home countries and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to secure a permanent second consultant breast surgeon at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5125/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (5 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages affected by the overcharging carried out by a company (details supplied) on mortgages previously owned by a bank; the average amount overcharged; when the overcharging commenced; if property that was being overcharged at the time was repossessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4945/19]