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Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin welcomes confirmation of the Christmas bonus this year. It will go some way towards lifting the hardship of families at a crucial time. This is during a time of year when many citizens across the State become more vulnerable and their State must be there to offer a helping hand. This is especially true for those who consistently endure fuel poverty throughout the harshest...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Thousands of citizens, young and old, crowded the streets outside this building to demand their rights and substantial change but the Government has delivered nothing. It has let them down miserably. What has been given in the budget? There will be €120 million more than pre-committed expenditure and €80 million in addition to NDP commitments for 2019. The only additional...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The serviced site initiative for 2019 is €75 million.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The crisis is happening now.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I know this is difficult for the Deputies to swallow, as they spent the past two weeks in Government Buildings.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: They walked out with €14 million for social housing.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is unbelievable. No wonder the rest of their party has abandoned them.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is important to point out that €75 million for the serviced sites initiative is there for 2019.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Fianna Fáil found €89 million in total, an additional €14 million.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is a pathetic amount in the context of what is required to address the crisis.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Even if it were €89 million, which it is not, nearly ten times that amount is required. In our alternative budget, we proposed €1 billion in additional investment in capital infrastructure to deal with the social crisis. It is not about tinkering around the edges and presenting this to what Fianna Fáil must believe is a gullible public as a real or genuine effort to deal...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is all well and good for Fianna Fáil to come in here, make jokes and quote Brendan Behan. However, Brendan Behan also said, "It is a good deed to forget a poor joke" and maybe Deputy Cowen should keep that in mind. Fine Gael's budget is a poor joke, but Fianna Fáil laughing in the face of homeless children is even worse. Let me remind Fianna Fáil of the backdrop to...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We know that there are 10,000 other Amandas out there. For them budget day is like "Groundhog Day". The question people ask is why they should trust that anything will change in budget 2019. Will anything be different? Will we be standing in this Chamber again next year, talking about Amanda or another Amanda? The answer to that is probably "Yes". That is because despite all the numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Oireachtas Banking Inquiry (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on implementing each recommendation of the banking inquiry with relevance to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40631/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Union Services (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on the confidence and supply commitment to develop a strategy for the growth and development of the credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40877/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Data (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints made to An Garda Síochána by insurers under section 19(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40955/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Data (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment of the area of natural constraint, ANC, scheme and the single farm payment to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41213/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (9 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision in respect of an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied) will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40798/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: We hear in media reports today that a special savings scheme for housing is under consideration by the Government. Not surprisingly, this is the brainchild of Fianna Fáil. At a committee meeting last week, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, completely ruled out the idea of such a scheme. He bluntly answered "No" when asked by Deputy Broughan whether one was under consideration....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2018)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste knows that projects-----