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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Last week, mothers from Donegal travelled up here to sleep outside the gates of Leinster House. They did so in desperation because their children, ten with additional and special needs, do not have a school place for September. There is only one school in the county that they can go to, and that is Little Angels. It is now more than six weeks since I raised this on the floor of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: This needs to be sorted because a school in the hands of the State could be lying empty.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: When?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the Government to stop being a spectator. It knew about this issue for a year. Does the Minister believe its colleague, the then Minister for Health-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: -----should have been open with the families and the families should not have just found out about this last week.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Gan dabht, tá scrios déanta ag an scannal i dtaobh cúram sláinte leanaí ar leanaí agus ar theaghlaigh ar fud an Stáit. Tar éis muinín a mhilleadh i measc go leor daoine, tá an Rialtas anois ag gníomhú mar lucht féachana, cé go bhfuil freagracht air dul i ngleic le seo. Tá tuismitheoirí amuigh ansin nach bhfuil a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: The former Minister knew about this since May last year. Parents found out last week. The Minister is absolutely right about how it must feel for parents. Imagine thinking that was your child. The draft report has been published. It found that hundreds of children did not need this operation. We now have this other information from 2016, which I just put on the record, where a second...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 370. To ask the Minister for Health when a home support package, which was approved six weeks ago, will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18136/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: President Trump's tariffs are an unjustified act of aggression that will damage the US and the global economy. A full trade war has the risk of unleashing a global recession and that is the scale of threat we possibly face. The stakes are high and now more than ever is a time for cool heads. Irish interests and the interests of ordinary workers and families need to be at the front and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Avoidance (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the estimated cost to the exchequer of the loophole introduce into the PRSA pension schemes in the Finance Act 2022, and subsequently closed in the Finance Act 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Avoidance (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify that tax avoidance if against the law; that the use of the loophole introduce into the PRSA pension schemes in the Finance Act 2022, and subsequently closed in the Finance Act 2025 for the purpose of avoiding tax is unlawful; if general anti-avoidance regulation can be used to recoup the tax that has been lost;; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Avoidance (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department was first made aware of the loophole introduced into the PRSA pension schemes in the Finance Act 2022, and subsequently closed in the Finance Act 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 224. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting on CDNT waiting lists in Donegal, by team, and the number months they have been waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17691/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: That makes no sense.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider providing an extension by way of a by-law to address the fact a fishers' group (details supplied) has had its dates significantly restricted by the Conservation of Salmon and Sea Trout By-Law No. 1018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 357. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints with the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman that have been waiting five years or more for a preliminary decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Assets (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 358. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Nature and Climate Fund are invested and stored; the projected rate of return from the financial instruments held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Pearse Doherty: 435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport appeal decision will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16559/25]