Results 281-300 of 33,712 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You divert. It is on your watch. You are doing this deliberately.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I asked you in relation to----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You are doing this. I gave you an opportunity and you would not answer. You are pushing up the prices.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: There are families relying on it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We were honest when we asked to keep it under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We said to keep it under review and you know fine well. Do not be dishonest.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is you who makes the decision.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You made the decision to jack up the price. You are making the decision to do it in August and you are planning to do it in October again, and shame on you.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You will not answer about those jobs that are dependent on this type of business.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am asking the question but he keeps on interrupting me.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I will ask the question, with respect to the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What was missing from the Minister's contribution was any acknowledgement that households are contending with a cost-of-living crisis. What a Minister for Finance who is in touch with people and communities should be doing is thinking about how to relieve the burden on families that are struggling but what the Minister did on 1 April was to increase the pressure on individuals, families and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I think the time allowed is two minutes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The time is allocated to the Opposition. It is two minutes and two minutes.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Okay.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister said that there are lots of considerations feeding into the final price that people pay at the pump. What he did not say was that nearly 60% of what people pay to fill up their car is going to the Revenue. It goes to the State because that is the level of tax that is being applied and the Minister's plan is to increase the tax. When people stop off at a petrol station in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: He will make the wrong decision on 1 August, if he does the same and he will make the wrong decision again on 1 October of he decides to do it for a third time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It needs to be scrapped and the Minister should indicate that today.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is the point. That is what one does.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, but-----