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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I understand the trouble you are in, Darragh. You know what I do agree with? I agree with the Housing Commission when it said there is a need for a radical reset in Government policy. I agree with the commission when it reports on reactive policymaking by the Government undermining affordability. I agree with it when it refers to ineffective decision-making. I agree with the commission-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You can heckle all you want. I agree with the commission when it says there is insufficient progress-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----because I know the lived experience of people right across this State. I asked you a simple question. Do you agree with those proposals? This is Leaders' Questions. Do you agree with those proposals? I asked you a simple question, which is the same question I asked your leader. Where the hell are the 50,000 homes, Darragh, that you promised would be delivered if you were in...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance his and his Department’s position on the call for a five-year moratorium on branch closures by an organisation (details supplied); the way this call can be accommodated with the Access to Cash Bill 2024. [23470/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 9 April 2024, the projected carbon tax annual revenue in each of the years 2024 to 2030 respectively, with respect to carbon tax increases in each of those years on a cumulative basis. [23480/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 10 April 2024, if he has received correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners expressing concern regarding the BIK exemption for employer contributions to PRSAs, legislated through Section 22 of the Finance Act 2022, if he will share details of those concerns expressed; and the actions he is considering on foot...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the options he is considering to force further premium reductions in the insurance market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23485/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: One of the problems we consistently have is that the Minister of State continues to be almost a spokesperson for the insurance industry. He did it again. When I asked him whether the insurance industry is taking a hand at the Government he said he was not happy with the rate of decreases. Where are the decreases? This is the problem. Does the Minister of State not know what is happening...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----and said he expected insurance companies to cut the cost, it was 2021.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What difference does it make now when the Minister of State tells them his expectations? Will they just take a hand at him-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----in the same way they took a hand at his partners in government and continued to raise prices?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I have a simple question. Is the insurance industry taking a hand at the Minister of State and the Government? For the past six years, the Government and Ministers, particularly Ministers in the Minister of State's party, have been telling insurance companies their expectation that they will reduce prices but prices have gone in the other direction for businesses and community groups. Does...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Premiums are not coming down.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is not the pace at which they are coming down; they are not coming down.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Premiums are not coming down.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not get this. He proceeded with one increase last month, which was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time again. Now he s planning for and has legislated for this increase in 70 days and legislated for a further increase two months later. It is not just those people who are struggling. It is not just the people who have to fill their tanks. Every time they put a litre...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister's advice was to keep it under review. He knows that well. He should be brutally honest please; a vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for an increase in petrol prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: And if it is not, and if a vote for Fianna Fáil is not to increase petrol and diesel prices maybe the Minister will clarify that. I will give him the floor.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Customs and Excise (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A vote for Fianna Fáil is a vote for higher petrol and diesel prices.