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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I put to the Tánaiste a truly disgraceful situation that exposes the consequences of the Government's failure to properly fund our schools. Parents at Darver National School in County Louth were contacted this week and told that the school could no longer afford basic hygiene supplies because Government grants had fallen so far behind rising costs. The principal was forced to ask every...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: No money.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: They-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We are doing a bake sale next week. We are doing a fundraiser next week.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You asked me a question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: You asked me the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That is going to be cold comfort to people who are listening to this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Do not be cold this winter. Does the Tánaiste listen to the facts? Does he not listen to what is being said by the CRU and the hard, unvarnished facts? Seventy thousand more households, more families, more individuals - real people - could not pay their electricity bill in the first six months of this year. The record number we are seeing is from the middle of July, the warmest month...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: People have had to make the decision not to pay their gas and electricity bills because of the decisions of the Tánaiste's Government. I put it to him the Government has consciously made it impossible for people to stay warm this winter and I ask him to bring forward energy credits-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----to support these families and provide them with a lifeline during these winter months.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Does he think that washes with people?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: There is no election so the Tánaiste does not care. Simon Harris, true to form.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirfeadh na figiúirí ar fhoilsigh an rialálaí inné maidir le riaráistí fuinnimh imní an domhain ar dhuine ar bith. Tá rabhadh mór dearg ag splancáil do theaghlaigh atá ag streachailt cheana féin leis an mhéid atá in ann dóibh don gheimhreadh. Tá sé seo go léir ag tarlú toisc nach bhfuil faic...

Paediatric Spinal Surgery Waiting Lists: Statements (19 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Members for facilitating me. We are here today because of the heroic efforts of the parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida, because of their determination and because their love of their children. We are also here because they never stopped fighting tooth and nail. In particular, we are here because of the parents of Harvey Morrison Sherratt,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Oh please.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On the Office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman, we have a 58% increase in the allocation from the Department. Is that a result of an increased number of complaints since the Estimates were presented to the committee at the end of last year? How come we are seeing such a big increase?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: On the Estimates for Revenue, there is a €7.9 million reduction in the pay bill. Why has that materialised? Is this an issue of not being able to recruit into Revenue? This would be well over 100 staff and we know that Revenue is stretched in different areas, with it taking up to 20 days for an issue to be responded to by Revenue. What is going on there?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 7 - Finance (Supplementary)
Vote 9 - Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025)

Pearse Doherty: We will continue to monitor that. On capital expenditure, Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners talks about the Rosslare infrastructure project. There is a requirement for an additional €2.2 million. This was a project that was opened by the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, just last week. Is that the cost of the project or is it an...