Results 241-260 of 33,712 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You do not have a clue.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am sorry; I thought the time was up. I apologise, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Review it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister does not have a clue what is happening on the ground. If he or his colleague had turned up, they would know that. There were 1,300 people present, some of whom who could not get into the room and were out on the streets. That is what happened. This scheme is not working. We tabled 80 amendments to the Government's legislation to make this scheme work. Ours is 100% redress...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is not working. The Minister needs to get his head out of the sand. It is a simple question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will he provide upfront costs as an immediate measure, which he was asked to do more than six months ago?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Department of Finance told the Minister six months ago-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It was six months ago.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the issue of future mortgage ability affecting homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks who avail of the DCB scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15705/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why the second meeting of the subgroup set up to examining issues relating the enhanced DCB scheme, which met on 11 January 2024, did not meet as planned on 21 February; why a meeting did not take place in March; if there has been further communication with homeowner representatives attending the sub-group since its first and...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance the nominal value of VAT collected with respect to petrol and diesel in each of the years 2017 to 2023, respectively.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15936/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Credits (11 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 164. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals who have contacted the community welfare office on account of the fact that they could not receive the mortgage interest tax credit due to having insufficient income and income tax credits; the number of such individuals that have received a payment as a result; the total value of such payments...
- Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This Bill, as the Minister outlined, provides for the establishment of two funds, namely the future Ireland fund and the infrastructure, climate and nature fund. It is fair to say these funds were first proposed in the context of two trends: future costs likely to incurred by the State and the growth of corporation tax receipts in recent years. The Minister reflected on this fact on budget...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: To be clear, what the banks are proposing here is 0% loans to those with affected homes. They are going to provide this to non-bank customers - people who do not have accounts, borrowings or mortgages with them. This is for everybody. The easiest way for this to happen is actually for the Department itself to do it. Instead of having to go through the bank, the Department should provide...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----and we cannot even get over that hurdle.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will finish on this point.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Months ago I pleaded with the Minister and asked him to inject momentum into this issue. Unfortunately, I do not see that from him.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the benefit-in-kind exemption for employer contributions to PRSAs, legislated through section 22 of Finance Act 2022, is facilitating aggressive tax planning; if his Department received recommendations from an organisation (details supplied) in June 2022 warning that such a risk would materialise; and if he will make a statement on...