Results 1-5 of 5 for construction industry council speaker:Pearse Doherty

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...cities. Overheating in the Irish housing market is best addressed through increasing the supply of housing, a policy which is inhibited by a supply and skills problem within the labour market. The biggest threat from construction, however, is not from residential but from commercial property, as consistently pointed out by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and nothing in this Bill will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...will have seen a ding-dong between the Minister and me when he would not answer my questions. He suggested that is more a feeling involving where sales, PRSI levels, the sale of cement and the construction industry are at. They are data on car sales, etc. They are publicly available data of which he is perhaps getting advance notice from the CSO. I am not sure. My question related...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Pearse Doherty: ...have the highest number of holiday homes in the country, at 8,275, and that is the ones that are built. Planning permission has been granted for approximately another 1,000 that have not yet been constructed. We have the sixth highest number of occupied rental properties in the State, at 4,232, and 10,768 non-principal private residences, or second houses, which is the largest number in...

Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)

Pearse Doherty: .... How will the 3% cut in payroll costs be achieved by the various Departments and what impact will this have on service delivery? I carried out a quick calculation in respect of Donegal County Council and discovered that what is proposed will result in 40 positions either being lost or not being filled when they become vacant. Will it be our litter wardens, our planners or those who...

Seanad: Economic Competitiveness: Statements. (18 Oct 2007)

Pearse Doherty: ...at four times the national average. The position is deteriorating in the region with those haemorrhaging jobs. Two weeks ago I rose in this Chamber to speak about three companies in the Gweedore industrial estate that lost more than 100 jobs since the summer. Those companies are not making the national headlines. There are also other companies closing down that are not making the...