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Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...a spade a spade. We need its swift passage because the European Commission has begun proceedings because the Government delayed the transposition of this directive. The European Commission last month took the first step in infringement proceedings against the Government by sending a formal notice to the State for failing to fully transpose the motor insurance directive, which it was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...businesses but it is also affecting community organisations across the county. Some of these community organisations are technically being classed as commercial buildings, including organisations like the Raphoe Community Playgroup, which hosts around 45 children. This playgroup owns a building that was built in 2000 with funds from the EU Special Programmes Body for peace and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...atá déanta nó nach bhfuil déanta aige ó thaobh cúrsaí tithíochta agus an dóigh atá cúrsaí tithíochta á láimhseáil. Tá deis anois de dhíth faoi choinne an Dáil seo an tuarascáil seo a phlé go mion. Last week, I asked the Tánaiste to tell me where the 50,000 affordable homes...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 3: In page 12, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “ “designated housing project” has the meaning assigned to it by section 21;”. I will speak to all of the grouped amendments. These amendments relate to the infrastructure, climate and nature fund and under the legislation, €2 billion will be contributed to the...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Deputy Nash outlined the substance of his amendment. My amendment is very similar. It relates to the investment strategy under the Future Ireland Fund and would provide a focus for the investment strategy with respect to the Future Ireland Fund towards domestic investment in the State. As I outlined on Committee Stage and Second Stage, I believe the establishment of funds is appropriate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure Mr. Cody opens the purse strings and all the rest. I saw a video on TikTok in the past couple of days on how to get money out of a company. Any company director will know about the problem of having money locked in a company that is going well. Under Irish tax law, somebody earning €18,000 does not pay income tax and they may pay USC. The point was made that, instead of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What is the proposal then? The Minister has heard this. I have raised it with him numerous times. If he were to turn around to Mr. Rafferty and say, "Mr. Rafferty, please develop a scheme that would help with upfront payments", Mr. Rafferty would respond. He is here as the face of the Department, so I am not personally making the claims against him, but I have to represent my constituents...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Let us look at the language. I am aware that investors will look at this in the round but I am talking about what the legislation forces the Minister for Finance to state in the Dáil, which has an impact. We understand that investors are not going to just look at headlines when they are making their investments and I take the Minister's point on that. Let us take a scenario, however,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry, but I did not get what the Minister was saying at the end. The amendments before us do not alter the total amount that can be drawn down, that is, the cumulative amount of €3.15 billion by 2030. Instead of just having designated environmental projects, I also include designated housing projects and therefore, within the portion of that fund from 2026 on, it could be used...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is the same as previous assessments. I do not want to talk about the fiscal council and the valuable work it does but, after the passage of this Bill, what legal weight is on the recommendation of IFAC? I presume the Minister just has to consider it and that after that he or she can just put it up on a shelf if he or she wishes or can take the recommendation and implement it or tweak...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That would be appreciated because the 9.30 p.m. cut-off provided in the section would impact on radio bingos that a lot of charities use to raise money. We made the point strongly last week that charities need to be exempt. The problem with legislation is that we have to deal with what is in front of us. I accept that the Minister of State spoke in good faith and it is clear from his...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...not be having commercial advertising in terms of gambling. I agree with the Deputy on that. It should be curtailed. That is my view. I recognise this legislation takes a step forward. I would like to hear from the Minister of State on the definition of "on-demand media service" and "on-demand sound service". I assume that is YouTube, Spotify and their equivalents. Just to clarify,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...in my own county and throughout the State. We have an additional issue that impacts on the housing crisis in County Donegal, which is defective blocks. The Government’s scheme is simply not working. There were 1,300 people at a meeting, packed to the rafters, out on the street, unable to get into the venue because the venue was not big enough. We do not have a venue big enough...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...I begin, I will say that my thoughts and those of the party are with the families of those who lost their lives in the Stardust fire. As we all know, they have waited four decades for answers as to what happened to their loved ones at that time. They have faced many obstacles, including those put in their way by this State. I hope the families involved will get the answers they have...

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 ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Tánaiste talks about frustration. I mentioned that there must always be balance and consideration. The approval of a new drug is supposed to take 180 days. The Tánaiste talked about people with rare diseases and cancer patients. We are at the bottom of the list in Europe for accessing these drugs. All through the term of this Government that has been the situation. Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: ...I begin, I will welcome the ruling of the High Court in Belfast this morning that the British Government's legacy Act is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. It would be opportune to get an update on the interstate case early next week. In 2017, thug an Rialtas agus an tAire, an Teachta Harris, gealltanas nach mbeidh aon leanbh ag fanacht ar obráid scoliosis ar...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Pearse Doherty: .... Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an Bhille seo a chur i láthair. Bunaíodh an FSPO anseo agus chuaigh sé i mbun a chuid oibre in 2018. The FSPO was established and began its operations in 2018. Its primary function is to receive, investigate and endeavour to resolve consumer complaints regarding the conduct of financial services and pension providers....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am conscious that we have to finish at 5 p.m. but I did interrupt the Deputy. I have two brief questions. I will return to issues that I have raised with the Minister of State for a number of years. There are flooding issues in Donegal that are part of the overall Estimates issue. The first relates to Castlefin. The Minister of State is familiar with this. I have raised it. Castlefin...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the good news overnight of the DUP's decision to end its boycott of the institutions. I hope we will now see the executive, the assembly and the North-South institutions up and running before long. It is long overdue, as I am sure all of us in this House can agree. Tá tithe de dhíth ag daoine ar phraghas réasúnta a cheannach ná a chíosú. Mar...