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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is simply not acceptable. I ask the Minister of State to put herself in the shoes of the parents or the staff. She talked about helping the children to find suitable alternative placements if no accommodation can be found. No one knows where those placements are. The staff do not know if there will be jobs for them after September. She previously said that one strand of the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am sure the Minister of State is aware that the defective concrete block crisis has ravaged my county of Donegal and other counties. It has destroyed people's homes, farm buildings and 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...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The credit union consumer sentiment survey has shown this week the impact families are under as a result of the cost-of-living pressures. Some of those pressures have been brought on by the Government. Last month, it increased the price of petrol and diesel and it plans to do that twice more after the local elections. Insurance prices are increasing at an alarming rate, while the insurance...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Really?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You do not turn up when Eoin Ó Broin is looking for debates on RTÉ.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am happy to swap seats with you if you will not answer the questions from here. This is Leaders' Questions. If the Government wants to take over the Opposition, we will happily go over there and the Government can ask us the questions. Please answer the questions. It is Leaders' Questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Come on. You are in government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You are in government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is. Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A radical reset.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Where are the 50,000 homes? I will answer the question if you tell me where any of the 50,000 homes are. Tell me where the first 100 of them are and I will answer any of your questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: No, your time is gone. You will not answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: What happened to the 50,000?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Where are they?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Inné, d'fhoilsigh an Rialtas tuarascáil an Choimisiúin Tithíochta, tuarascáil nach raibh sé sásta a fhoilsiú ach amháin go bhfuair RTÉ a chuid lámha air. Déanann sé cáineadh millteanach ar an Rialtas agus ar an méid atá déanta nó nach bhfuil déanta aige ó thaobh cúrsaí...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: For four minutes, the Minister could not even get a couple of words to defend his own record.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I understand the trouble you are in, Darragh. You know what I do agree with? I agree with the Housing Commission when it said there is a need for a radical reset in Government policy. I agree with the commission when it reports on reactive policymaking by the Government undermining affordability. I agree with it when it refers to ineffective decision-making. I agree with the commission-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: You can heckle all you want. I agree with the commission when it says there is insufficient progress-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----because I know the lived experience of people right across this State. I asked you a simple question. Do you agree with those proposals? This is Leaders' Questions. Do you agree with those proposals? I asked you a simple question, which is the same question I asked your leader. Where the hell are the 50,000 homes, Darragh, that you promised would be delivered if you were in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)
Pearse Doherty: One of the problems we consistently have is that the Minister of State continues to be almost a spokesperson for the insurance industry. He did it again. When I asked him whether the insurance industry is taking a hand at the Government he said he was not happy with the rate of decreases. Where are the decreases? This is the problem. Does the Minister of State not know what is happening...