Results 19,061-19,080 of 35,756 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance his understanding of the term first-time buyer in the context of the Central Bank's macro prudential rules, the help-to-buy scheme and other schemes in which this term is used; if this is an identical term in all cases; if not, the differences in the terms used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16953/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance if, under the Central Bank's mortgage rules, persons seeking to buy a home with a partner are still classified as non-first time buyers if they have, for example, previously added their name to a mortgage on their parents' home for a short period,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16954/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if a mechanism exists whereby a person deemed not to be a first-time buyer can present a case as to why his or her specific circumstances are exceptional in the context of the Central Bank's mortgage rules and the help to buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16955/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) participating in JobPath can be released from the programme in order to take up a community employment scheme position in view of the fact they have previously completed a different CE scheme placement; if consideration will be given to such requests in situations in which difficulties have been encountered in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 274. To ask the Minister for Health if respite services are currently being provided at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; if not, the alternative provisions available to service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16887/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 295. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision to revoke a medical card from a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be reviewed in view of evidence having been supplied that supports claims by the card holder that every effort was made to engage with his Department and supply it with the required information concerning the holder's place of residence; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (5 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a 2016 GLAS payment issuing to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16941/17]
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: These are the same developers the Minister told he was introducing the scheme before he told any Deputy in the House about it on budget day.
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Deal with the facts, Minister. That is the kind of nonsense we heard-----
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: It is pushing up houses prices by €18,000 in 12 weeks. The Minister is a disgrace.
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister would make McCreevy proud.
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Deal with the facts.
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2017 and other years of the help-to-buy scheme based on the latest figures; and the reason no cost containment measures were put in place for the scheme. [16432/17]
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Today the Governor of the Central Bank appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach. When asked, he told us in Sinn Féin and those of us who oppose the help-to-buy scheme that, of course, the help-to-buy scheme was pushing up prices and that a cost-benefit analysis would have been a good idea. We now know, despite the...
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: Over the past 48 hours since the two reports have been published, households have been asking if we are in some kind of time warp. Are we back in 2007 again when the RTE news and headlines splashed across the newspapers indicate that the price of houses in the capital city is increasing by €6,000 a month? Every analyst and economist worth their salt is attributing part of the blame...
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to acknowledge that this is not a targeted incentive. His scheme is about handing out free money - everybody loves free money.
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: We need to remember he is taking that money from the elderly person who is lying on a trolley this morning, from the child who cannot get speech and language therapy this morning-----
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: ----- or from the creaking infrastructure in rural areas. Does the Minister acknowledge that the spiralling house prices we have seen in the first three months of 10% and 9% across the State-----
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: ----- is partly as a result of his flawed help-to-buy scheme?
- Other Questions: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Apr 2017)
Pearse Doherty: I did not suggest I was quoting him in full. He did suggest that, of course, it was pushing up house prices.