Results 141-160 of 1,256 for long speaker:Pearse Doherty

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...to low- and middle-income earners, targeted to those most in need, or to set up a debt utility fund to help people to pay what their debts cost. He does not get it, and he has never gotten it as long as he has been in government, that the housing crisis and the spiralling rents that people are paying need to be dealt with. We need to a month's rent back in renters' pockets through a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...published by the Government that would hold senior bankers to account. That is unacceptable and shows the lack of priority the Government has in respect of the matter. When will this legislation that is so long overdue be published? When is it likely to take effect?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: .... We on this side of the House are willing to assist the Government to bring forward emergency legislation. The Ombudsman's report makes it very clear that section 37A is not fit for purpose. The process is too long. Let us bring forward the powers necessary to make sure every child has a school place in September.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...to charitable causes? Has it handed it over? The reason it cancelled and refunded all of its national draw events for Christmas was that if it had gone to the court, the licence would have been rescinded. It knew that it was caught hook, line and sinker. It was breaking the law; it was caught. The problem is that the April licence had too long of a timeframe before the citizen was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...catastrophe that it is. The truth is being spoken in a powerful way. The cynical Government efforts to shut down and shut up those who stand up for the people are disgraceful. The housing crisis is a decade of shame for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. It has defined life in Ireland for far too long. It has been profoundly damaging to the aspirations of an entire generation. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...and presented to the committee rather than us doing it individually, which we can do and I might do that. It is important to get a sense of where we are at and, in particular, whether there are long-term secondments that should no longer be secondments, whereby people probably have been in those roles for so long that those positions should be permanent. With permanency comes particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...is still temporary. The consequences of that are significant. If a person want to get a mortgage, he or she will not get one on having a non-secure employment position. People are seconded for long durations over a five-year period and the backfilling of those positions is still temporary. Is that fair in this day and age in terms of the public sector and those publicly funded...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...these people that the Government cannot get an international airport to function properly on its watch? What does it say to our tourism sector that relies on Dublin Airport to function properly and a provide a service that tourists can depend on? I am not convinced by what the DAA had to say yesterday. The wait times it set out are still too long. The idea that passengers would be...

Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...one there cannot be differential pricing in the market, whereas the Central Bank here will allow differential pricing up to the first year. That raises concern. That said, I recognise we have come a long way from a free-for-all for the industry, whereby hundreds of millions of euro was additionally charged on more than 2.5 million customers through this type of practice. The Bill will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...is a stark testament to this reality right across the State. A foodbank in the midlands is now feeding up to 5,000 people and it expects that figure to rise to 15,000 over the next period. Those who never thought they would need such help are now standing in queues waiting to be fed by charities. People are working long hours, and the soaring costs mean that they simply cannot get by....

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...1 March 2023, it has come with a price tag of €902 million. That is a large price tag but we also have to recognise that the hospitality sector has been hit hard during the pandemic. It has a longer tail in terms of recovery. This 9% VAT rate will benefit a considerable number of areas, including restaurant supplies, tourist accommodation, cinemas, theatres, museums, historic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Withdrawal from Irish Banking Market (Resumed): Engagement with Financial Services Union and Electric Ireland (25 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...in Electric Ireland, they would be fine and did not have to worry unless they wanted to shop around for a better option. Was any of that discussed in the forums with BPFI? We have had a year-long lead-in. When the banks needed to be rescued, they had no problem marching up to Government Buildings at all hours of the morning looking for emergency legislation. In this day and age, I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: The point is that there is a long list here and it has been repeatedly requested by the commission. Rather than going through the long list, perhaps Ms Cassidy could outline the top three most important. If the Government were to commit to doing three more, which three would be most important to implement?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...for an inquiry and there is no HSE disability pathway in place for families that have been harmed. This has been raised with the Tánaiste directly by many of my colleagues in the Dáil over a long period of time but he has given no clear response. The families who have suffered for decades deserve the truth. The hundreds of children who were born in this State with serious...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How long has the Tánaiste been in government now? Is it ten or 11 years? Over that period when the Tánaiste has been sitting around the Cabinet table we have seen rents double. He was tweeting two years ago about how Government policies were working. He tweeted: Rents down, homelessness down, house prices levelling off. Our policies are working. Let me put some facts to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme: Former Members of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (11 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: ...Department that has failed them over several years. The board did reconsider at that point. Would it reconsider again and get involved? I refer to the expertise our guests have amassed over a long period. Would they get involved under a new scheme? Is there any possibility that they would work under the existing scheme again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Let me be clear. That is exactly what I do not want to do. As long as the data are being collected, I am happy. Insurance Ireland is telling me that this legislation that we are currently dealing with in the House, the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, already provides for that. I am asking Ms Murdock to point out, and I will hand her the Bill if she wants, which section-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Is Ms Murdock giving me last year's figures? Do not give me this year's figures because a claim takes a long time to be settled so that figure can be manipulated. I am talking about 2020 and 2021.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Proposed Appointment to University Research Post: Department of the Taoiseach (27 Apr 2022)

Pearse Doherty: .... As the Chairman and the previous speaker has said, it is really important that the work of these committees is not impeded or frustrated. It is disappointing that for the first time in as long as I am member of this committee, at well over a decade, we have had to seek compellability because another Secretary General is refusing to attend this committee at this point. Mr. Fraser is...